The two things that make the great magician La Niña suffer a lot are actually cause and effect of each other.

There is never love without a cause, and there is no hate without a reason.

As a border count guarding the northern frontier of the kingdom, although his status and strength are among the best among the dukes of the kingdom, his fief is also the most dangerous front line of the kingdom.

Of course, the front line is not a fixed concept, if you are a war maniac, you will see everywhere like the front line.

The more you push the enemy, the more uneasy you are, the more uneasy you are, the more you want to expand, the more you expand the enemy, the more endless this cycle is doomed from the time the Herodes first marched north.

Since the end of the Demon Land War, the threat of the demons has taken a back seat, and the problem of the northern orcs has been exposed again.

The Duke of Kitayama and other northern nobles had to fulfill their obligations to defend their territories, and war was inevitable.

Every spring, the orcs would emerge from the depths of the snow-capped mountains and permafrost to attack the territory of the Herodians, which was both the inertia of history and the only way for them to survive.

If they don't attack, the Herodians will also kill them, and instead of waiting for death, it is better to strike first.

After the withdrawal of the demons, the vitality of the Herod Kingdom was greatly damaged, and the orcs were able to gain wealth from the war every year, and sometimes they could recover some ancestral lands, and their will to fight was high, and their combat effectiveness became more and more powerful.

And this has only happened for the last thirty years, when they were only prey and slaves of the Herodians.

Long before the demons crossed the sea, the ancestors of the three kingdoms began to march into the vast north, constantly driving the backward orc tribes from the land, and enslaving the orcs as inferior slaves.

If the damage of the demons is a storm that comes and goes like the wind, the resistance of the orcs is an ulcer that has never been cured, and the three kingdoms have no better solution to this.

Compared to Etran, which can rely on the western sea for profit, and Skava, which is vast and sparsely populated, the kingdom of Herodes, which is sandwiched in the middle, has a superior location, fertile land and high degree of development, and should be the most powerful country on the continent.

However, because of its suitability for agriculture, the population grew rapidly, and after hundreds of years of development, the population of the Herodians was too large for the land to bear, and because of the sea to the south and neighboring countries to the east and west, the kingdom could only expand all the way to the north.

The north is not the territory of the Terrans, full of wastelands, forests, mountains and swamps, and further north there are icebergs and frozen soils, and further north there are endless seas of ice floes.

The harsh environment is inhabited by uncivilized alien races, who worship their gods, disdain the blessings of the gods of light and order, and stubbornly live in a wilderness that they cannot exploit.

The fur-like orcs are the dominant race in the region, numbering more than a million, scattered among countless small clans and tribes, fighting each other, but most of them end up at the time of the manifestation of the ancestral gods.

Three hundred years ago, the Archpope issued the "Edict of the Wasteland", encouraging the followers of Herodes not to be reluctant but to bring light to the wasteland. ….

The people's momentum immediately began, and it was like having a heart.

For a time, the northern land was fertile and full of abundant products, and the news that the land could be obtained as long as you went there was a great uproar among the three kingdoms, and of course, the most enthusiastic was the most populous Herod.

Under the escort of the king's team, a large number of landless Herodite immigrants began to migrate north, many of them were idle people who couldn't get along in the city, and there were also many criminals who made the old man out of sight and out of mind.

The nobles also sent their sons who had nothing to do and could not get a fief to form a knight team, and led the armed servants to set out in search of the family's new fiefdom and wealth.

The clergy of the Church followed suit, preaching the future gospel to those suffering from fatigue and sickness, and establishing new dioceses where there was no light.

The magicians, who had long coveted the mystical powers and magical materials of the North, also embarked on a journey, taking into their hands valuable materials that would be beneficial for their cultivation and experimentation.

The gains made by Eitlan and Skava in their expeditions were nothing compared to those of Herodes, and they both gave up on conquering the north in favor of the western seas and the eastern steppes.

There was no way to go from east to west, and the Herodians had no choice but to conquer the north.

Due to the long distance and lack of food and medicine, many people on the road died, disappeared or fell behind before reaching their destination, and the remaining people did not dare to express their grievances to the army and the nobles, and could only suggest that their northern land was the culprit.

Slowly, the tribulation of the north became a mission, and in addition to the poor who could not survive, many young nobles who were full of illusions about making achievements also joined the group with their own dry food, dreaming of becoming legendary heroes who guarded the true gods and glorified their families in the conquest of foreign races.

This conquest of immigrants, which lasted for hundreds of years, was a grand epic of realism and idealism pushing each other, but unfortunately the orcs did not think so, and they called this era the "Age of Blood and Tears".

The Herodians went north, and the first unlucky ones were the orc tribes who had lived in the northern mountains and forests for thousands of years, with advanced combat tactics, armed with metal weapons, and able to use magic to invade their homes and kill this ignorant group of blood.

Burning forests to cultivate land deprives orcs who can't farm their homes.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the orcs were sought-after by an accidental invention of the magicians, which was the greatest obstacle to conquest: the control collar.

The invention was originally intended to control livestock and wild beasts, but soon the nobles of the kingdom developed a new way to play it, so much so that the Pope had to issue an order condemning the use of collars except for slaves, criminals, and the mentally ill.

However, if the collar is used on orcs, it is not doctrinally condemned, after all, they do not believe in the true God, and if it can be used to arouse their conscience with a prop, it can be a meaningful use.

With the collar, the orcs, who used to spend military and money to deal with, have become valuable assets that can create wealth.

This discovery made all the nobles and magnates in the kingdom overjoyed, and they invested their wealth in the road to riches by capturing orcs as slaves.

The millions of orcs in the north are millions of walking gold coin bags, and they are the kind that give birth every year.

If their own strength was insufficient, the Herodians would pay for mercenaries and hunters, and sometimes invite troops from foreign countries to hunt the retreating orcs.

In order to buy and sell, they reduced their killings.

The Herodians called this era the "Age of the North", creating many works of art and legendary poems to reminisce about the past, and it was during this era that many families went from poor to noble.

After hundreds of years of immigration and killing, the kingdom of the Herodians expanded for thousands of miles, and there was a new class in the kingdom - orc slaves, and in addition, they also practiced and created a race - half-orcs.

Orcs have become the new favorite of perverted nobles, of course, only in the sense of use, not in the sense of status.

The orcs fled from the dead, and the light of the gods finally shone on the alien lands, and all the aliens in the conquered lands must be converted or either expelled or judged.

Xiao Diankang