Chapter 14: Gigiza's Ambition 1
Gigisa stood tall at the top of the building, his tall body straight, and looked at the returning team with an indifferent expression. He was pleased with the harvest of the hunt, and although he had lost the strongest wolf knights and more than thirty giant wolves of the thirteen tribes, the value of the loot was far more than the loss.
Although he was very satisfied with the results of this team of hunters, he still tried to retain that indifferent expression. Not being glad in front of his subordinates was also a means of keeping them fearful of themselves and absolute surrender to them, and this method came from a book he had read written about humans, and he thought it was true.
For the vast majority of orcs, simplicity and straightforwardness are their most prominent character traits, they don't know how to hide their feelings, what they think in their hearts will be unreservedly displayed on their faces, once they decide on something, even if they know that it is wrong or impossible to achieve, they will still try to do it, until they hit the head and break the blood flow and they will not be discouraged.
It is because of this simple and stubborn personality that few orcs have not suffered losses in trade with human traders and dwarf merchants who are full of hypocritical smiles, so the majority of ordinary orcs generally have no good impression of those despicable gold chasers.
Their personalities are relatively similar to the rugged and heroic dwarves, so the orcs and dwarves have a better affection for each other, which is an important reason why they have been able to form alliances in history.
Looking at the orderly camp at his feet and the fierce werewolf warriors shuttling past, Gigisa suddenly had a strange feeling in his haze, he felt that he had become so powerful that he could even hold the entire land firmly in his hands with a single stretch of his hand.
The low roar of the black wolf crawling beside him woke him up from this strange and wonderful feeling, and he looked at the black wolf lying behind him with some doting, and then turned his head to look at the sunset on the edge of the sky, which was slowly falling and dyed half of the sky orange, sighed lowly, and turned to walk towards the huge tent built on the roof.
The furnishings of the large tent did not match its ornate appearance with beautiful patterns, except that the floor was covered with a carpet of salted animal skins, which was exceptionally soft to step on. In addition, there was only a low wooden table made of logs, placed at the back of the center of the tent, and behind the wooden table was an even lower wooden bed covered with animal skins, which could be used as a stool or a bed. On one side of the wooden table, a magical lampstand with a rich Eastville style, apparently by an elven craftsman, is a favorite of the proud elves of the Dreamy Forest. On the other side of the wooden table lay a neat stack of books with limp, shiny animal skins for covers, which, judging by the slightly worn corners, should have been read often.
Being able to read and write, this may not be an uncommon thing for human beings, ordinary aristocratic businessmen, and even some wealthy commoners, will invite tutors for their children and nephews to educate them to read and write from an early age. There are even some temple preachers who, while spreading the teachings of their temples, teach simple words to the common children who cannot afford to hire teachers because of poverty.
But in the territory of the orcs, the orcs who can read and write are extremely rare, perhaps in the glorious Sunset King City, in the solemn and simple beast god temple, there are many erudite and wise beast god priests, but for the orc races living in the vast grassland and desert, only some special beings in the group can have the opportunity to contact these mysterious and obscure things.
This may also have something to do with the special characteristics of the orcs' racial reproduction. Take the wolf warrior clan as an example, the wolf warrior clan is also a very peculiar race among the various tribes of the orc alliance, and the peculiarity lies in their unique breeding characteristics, although the oviparous war lizard clan is shocking enough in the eyes of the world, but it is still slightly inferior to the complex growth and transformation of the wolf warrior clan.
The members of this group are made up of werewolves and giant wolves, with all females maintaining the appearance of giant wolves, while some male juveniles will awaken as they grow up to become werewolves who can walk upright and use tools and weapons with both hands.
Each female giant wolf is able to breed about every two years after she reaches adulthood, and each litter is usually able to give birth to two to six pups. All members of the Wolf Clan are born in the form of wolf cubs, but the strongest males will generally activate the special powers hidden in the bloodline before the age of six, and thus evolve into werewolves who can walk upright.
However, when a male in a litter successfully transforms into a werewolf, the remaining males will generally not have this opportunity to transform and awaken, but will always maintain the appearance of a giant wolf.
Perhaps because of the birth of a child, there will be some strange feeling between these individuals who maintain the appearance of giant wolves and the individuals who have evolved into werewolves, just like the feeling of heart-to-heart communication that people often say, so each werewolf warrior will choose the strongest and most tacit giant wolf brother in the same womb as a mount to fight together, and the remaining male giant wolves will be used as backup mounts, surrounding the werewolf knights, acting as war wolves.
A wolf knight who can communicate with his mount's heart and soul and cooperate tacitly, coupled with several equally tacit wolf warriors by his side, is definitely a nightmare for any enemy on the battlefield, which is also the reason why the wolf knight is famous on the continent.
But as giant wolves that have not succeeded in transforming into werewolves, their intelligence is a little higher than that of ordinary beasts, and they are not enough to be able to read and write, and no one is bored enough to teach a giant wolf traditional etiquette, history and military affairs.
Even individuals who have successfully evolved from giant wolves to werewolves do not have the same abilities as highly intelligent races such as humans or elves. Even after the vast majority of werewolves reach adulthood, their IQ and EQ are not very high, only equivalent to those relatively stupid individuals in humans, and they also retain the habits of many beasts, and it is difficult to accept some knowledge that requires complex thinking.
But if the Wolf Warriors were just a bunch of ignorant and uncivilized wild beasts, then they should have been annihilated in the long river of history a long time ago. As a race that has bred from ancient times to the present, and is one of the top three races of the eight orc races, not only because the wolf warrior clan once had a god in ancient times, but also because the wolf god Laiken, one of the three gods worshiped by the orc clan now, but also because this god left a descendant with wisdom no less than that of humans, that is, the upper royal family of the wolf warrior clan who is famous for their bravery and cunning, and the Laiken who have the same appearance as the legendary wolf god.
In the stories that have been passed down from generation to generation among the orcs, the Wolf Warrior Clan is said to be the bloodline of the ancient Black Flame Giant Wolf, the deputy god who guards the side of the great beast god Beamon, who has the power to destroy the world and destroy the world.
The Black Flame Wolf has black fur as pure as the deepest night sky, but it has a crescent-shaped pure white mark on its chest. However, after a long period of time, the coat color of most of the werewolves and giant wolves of the wolf warrior clan has turned dull brownish-gray, and even their intelligence has degraded to a world different from that of their legendary and extremely intelligent ancestors.
But fortunately, there are still so few members of the Wolf Warrior Clan, they have pure black fur and the white crescent-shaped marks on their chests, they are regarded as the purest descendants of the Black Flame Wolf God, with the purest bloodline of the Wolf God, and they have a noble title, called Laiken.
Maybe it's really because of the divine blood flowing, each Laiken has a physique and courage far beyond ordinary werewolves, and the most important thing is that they all have incomparable wisdom that ordinary werewolves can't match, and they are good at learning and thinking, so in the wolf warrior clan, there has always been a recognized tradition, which can also be regarded as a principle that every member must follow, that is, only Laiken can become the leader of the tribe, and it is precisely by relying on these advantages that the tradition of Laiken controlling the tribe has been handed down since ancient times and has not changed to form a fixed pattern。
"Only Rykan can be the leader of the tribe......"
Gigisa sat behind the wooden table, staring at the elaborate ornamentation on the lampstand, muttering to himself with some resentment, a sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth.
The black giant wolf beside him also seemed to sense the grief and indignation in his heart, stretched out his head and gently rubbed his back with his huge head, and whined in a low voice, as if to comfort him to calm down his chaotic emotions.
Looking down at the trace of concern in the eyes of the giant wolf beside him, Gigisa rubbed the soft hair on the top of the giant wolf's head with some doting, and casually picked up a piece of meat that was still dripping with blood from the wooden plate that the kobold servant had just brought on the table, stuffed it into the giant wolf's mouth, and smiled as his brother munched on the fresh piece of meat.
Slowly untied the breastplate inlaid with iron plates on his body, carefully stacked it, and looked down at the brownish-yellow crescent-shaped marks on his chest, which looked particularly dazzling against the black hair.
It was a mark left on him by his mother.
The entire group of the wolf warrior clan is composed of dozens of different tribes, large and small, each tribe has its own heritage and surname, in the most prosperous period of the wolf clan in history, the entire clan has tens of millions of clansmen, but in the tragic war hundreds of years ago, as the main force of the orc alliance, the wolf knights suffered heavy losses, once at the end of the war, the entire group members were only less than 100,000 left, although after hundreds of years of multiplication, but under the harsh environment and lack of resources, it was only recovered to less than three million numbers。
Gigiza belongs to one of the largest of the Wolf Warrior tribes, the Blackback Tribe, and his father is the current leader of the Blackback Tribe, Ura Blackback.
Ura Blackback is a Lyken of pure blood, who defeated the Ryken of other Blackback tribes in a battle for the leader of the clan more than thirty years ago, and has become the undisputed leader of the tribe in the orc tradition of the strong. As in other races, the head of the tribe has absolute power and status in the tribe, which is also reflected in the power to obtain a spouse.
Gigisa's mother was a normal female brownish-gray wolf, and she was one of Uila's many mates, and as the most common female wolf in the tribe, she didn't even have a name of her own.
Gigisa was the child of her first child, and Gigisa also had two siblings of the same child, the female, that is, Gigiza's sister, who stayed with her mother and stayed in the tribe, and the male, Gigiza's brother, was the black wolf lying beside him, and became his wolf, accompanied him since childhood, and would faithfully follow him until the end of his life.
It was also because of their mother's ancestry that although Gigisa and his younger brother had inherited their father's stronger body and pure black hair, their mother left them with a brownish-yellow half-moon mark on their chests.
It was because of this brown-yellow mark that even if he had the purest black hair and a strong physique, he could not be revered by the clansmen as Laiken, and of course he lost the opportunity to compete for the position of the leader of the tribe.