Chapter 513 – Another Great Enemy

Chapter 513 – Another Great Enemy

“How terrifying will the orcs be?”

Both Aldrich and Yarvi were more than a little puzzled by MacDonald’s exposition.

For the people living in the central region of human civilization, they both feared and despised the orcs, the fear was because of the image of the other side in the public perception – the strange appearance that was very different from humans, the strong body with infinite strength, the brutal and unreasonable character, and the predatory and robber culture, and the latter two were also the reasons why the humans despised them. The latter two are also the reasons why humans despise them.

In addition, although the orcs are individually strong, but their race is a scattered, the prairie tribes are very common, when the last old chief died, often is also the time when his tribe fell apart. This led to the orcs can organize a small team of elite into the human territory to kill and loot, but in the face of the crusading human army can only choose to desert.

And their weapons production technology is quite backward, ordinary orcs can only use some bones, wood, stone to build weapons, fortunate enough to grab a metal weapon or defense can be used as a family heirloom, in the scale of the army combat, often need to pay for the lives of three to five orc soldiers in order to finish off a well-equipped human soldiers – here! I mean a real soldier, not a militia member who just put down his hoe.

However, in the thousands of years of strife between humans and orcs, these foreign races did have so many times to pose a major threat to the human race, when one of them appeared to have a king with a strong appeal, the tribes that had been fighting each other would form an alliance, and they would plunder human craftsmen as slaves to make up for their own lack of technology, and would also follow the example of the human state to establish a large-scale army. In their heyday, the orcs even penetrated into the current human territories.

However, once they were beaten back to the prairie, they would immediately degenerate into the same appearance as before, and the original tribal alliance fell apart, fighting each other for the few survival resources on the prairie.

The decline of human countries will often have a more than a hundred years less than a few decades of the process, while the decline of the orcs is often less than ten years from the peak fell to the trough.

Overall, the orcs are at the bottom of thousands of years of fighting with humans, with only a few occasional high moments.

This is why Maesters Aldrich and Yarvi did not associate the prophecy with the orcs.

But MacDonald, who was a high-ranking member of the imperial army, would not be like this, and compared to the two maesters who liked arcane knowledge, he was more focused on reality and the present.

“The caravan that has traveled to the grasslands brought us back some information.”

Now MacDonald became the party of exposition, while the two White Tower maesters became the listeners.

“As I said earlier, the Zarg clan has established a new royal tent, and this time they’re not just plundering human artisans anymore, they’re doing something incredible.”

“Incredible things?”

“The orcs are creating their own writing, and not only that, they seem to be following the example of the human nations in setting up all sorts of palace official positions.”

Hearing MacDonald’s narration, Aldrich and Yarvi looked at each other before laughing out loud in unison.

“Hahaha! This …… this is really something unheard of.”

Seeing that the two maesters were so contemptuous of the orcs they thought should be treated with caution, MacDonald couldn’t help but be a bit ashamed.

He stretched out his right hand and used the knuckles of his index finger to boom and bang on the table in front of him. “Both of you, there is a price to pay for belittling an opponent, let alone an opponent who once posed a major threat to mankind, and compared to the man-demon wars that were rumored by word of mouth and difficult to verify, the invasion of the orcs is literally written in the history books.”

“We apologize, Lord MacDonald.”

The two maesters struggled to stifle their laughter, and one of them, Maester Jarvie, said, “It’s just that the thought of a bunch of orcish hombres wrapped in animal furs snapping their fingers and learning to count is to particularly comical in my mind.”

“Well, that would be a comical scene indeed, but let’s not forget that our human ancestors started out wrapped in animal furs as well, and as Maesters you should know that better than I do.”

MacDonald said unhappily, “The reality is that the Watcher’s Legion of the Kingdom of Ordo, which used to suppress the orcs for hundreds of years, hasn’t been to the grasslands to burn the orcs’ pasture for years, and it can only hunker down in the valley of Nerodan and watch the orcs’ cows and horses gallop at will on the grasslands. And those oasis countries in the desert are said to have begun to pay more and more attention to the opinions from the steppe, and the influence of the royal tent is no longer confined to the traditional territory of the orcs.”

“Well!” Hearing MacDonald’s account of the orcs, Aldrich frowned and stroked his beard, feeling that he had indeed been a bit overly contemptuous just now.

“The prairie’s …… opinion? Did I hear it right?”

The old marshal frowned and said, “You didn’t hear it wrong, in fact this generation of the King’s Horde is not as belligerent as the previous one from the surface, the King’s Horde will send emissaries to human countries near the steppe to discuss trade matters, instead of directly hitting the door to loot them like in the past, and even if they are going to attack and loot the human territories, they will still bring out a whole lot of grandiose reasons whatsoever, the The messengers were humiliated, robbed and other nonsense. Sometimes the beasts will actually attack the object of the letter of war, think about it is unbelievable. Moreover, the human caravans that entered the grasslands were well protected, so they didn’t have to worry about being robbed all the time like before. According to the merchants, they have also encountered human officials in important positions in the king’s tent, but of course they work for the orcs, so I’m sure that a great scholar like you two haven’t seen such a strange sight from a book, right?”

“In the long run, the rulers of the oasis nations have actually begun to think that the orcs are the ones they can communicate with. It’s so naive and childish, they’ve become so foolish that they can’t see through the disguise of these steppe barbarians.”

MacDonald spoke in one breath.

“It’s indeed incredible how it’s becoming more and more like a human country.”

Aldrich stroked his beard in amazement.

“Indeed.” His schoolmate, Yarvi, said, “Such orcs also have the potential to become the great enemies of humanity in the prophecy. These brutes can grow a crop out of the grasslands in a decade or so, they can’t be killed or driven out, and their habits on the grasslands make them natural cavalrymen and hunters, so if they acquire the organizational skills of the human kingdoms, they can also be called a great disaster.”

“An even worse possibility has occurred to me.”

The expression on Aldrich’s face was extremely ugly.

“What possibility?” Yarvi and MacDonald looked at him at the same time.

“What if the Demons and Orcs come together?”

A bitter smile appeared on Aldrich’s face.

(End of chapter)