Chapter 201 Year-end

Chapter 201: The End of the Year
Advent Day is a major holiday for the people of this world, and in ancient times long, long ago, people used this day as the tipping point for the transition between the old and new year. Later, with the improvement of the calendar, Advent lost this role in the old calendar, and the first day of the year in the new calendar was postponed to about a week or so behind Advent.

But Advent is still the most important day, in addition to the strong traditional factors, but also because it has a layer of religious significance – legend has it that this day is the day of the Archangel Wenders leading 500 archangels to descend to the earth, when mankind is still in the level of slash-and-burn, knotted rope to keep track of the level of the tools are polished with stones, wear clothing using animal skins and clothes. The tools they used were made of polished stones, and the clothes they wore were made of animal skins and plant leaves.

And there were many foreigners on the continent at that time, threatening the weak human race.

The angels taught mankind a variety of amazing technologies, such as planting technology, animal and plant domestication technology, metal smelting technology, and also brought the incredible writing, which eventually helped human society out of the age of ignorance. With the help of these powerful technologies, human step by step to establish the hegemony on the continent, forcing the orcs to hide away in the grasslands, dwarves to shrink the mountains, elves to hide in the forests, and more foreign races disappeared directly into the river of history, without even leaving a name.

Humans ultimately occupied the continent’s most livable several large plains, generations of reproduction to date.

But with the passage of time and the various races, although infrequent, but also never cut off exchanges, the human technology gradually spread to the foreigners, the level of technology close to make the two sides of the army’s combat power is also close, which provoked the foreigners to return to the livable area of the ambitions of the human army can not be done to one-sided crush each other, the conflict between the races once again intensified.

The last time the alien race was completely suppressed was during the period of great unification of the Gubera Empire. The unified human empire sent several great expeditions with the strength of the whole country, and by virtue of the weaponry and advanced military system which still had a certain degree of superiority, the alien race was once again beaten into submission, and human civilization’s absolute hegemony in the continent was also established once again.

But the empire eventually went to collapse, and the divided human nations attacked each other. According to theory, this is a good opportunity for the foreign races to turn the tide, but the good thing is that the empire’s residual power still exists, and races such as dwarves and elves seem to have given up their ambitions to dominate the continent because of their sparse populations.

Only the beasts inhabiting the northern prairie, they are very fertile and populous, but the fragile ecology of the prairie is unable to carry too much population, the pressure of survival and the history of being repeatedly suppressed by the unwillingness of the people, so that they are always peeping at the south of the creamy land.

Orcs have launched several large-scale invasions, but they abandoned the previous kind of siege, occupy the strategy of not leaving, but change to rob a handful of the way to go, picking the weak defenses of the settlement to start, by virtue of the advantage of cavalry to come and go as the wind, to avoid the human countries and the army to start a tug-of-war.

The disunited countries were unable to feed large-scale cavalry like the Gubela Empire, and the increasingly weakened kingship and degraded logistics were unable to support a decent expedition, which made humans extremely passive in the face of orc looting. ,

Orc pillaging became an extreme headache for the rulers of the northern countries.

In the hall of the lord’s mansion in Lakeheart Town, the key members of Alda’s military and political sides were gathered, even the naval commander Austin and shipyard supervisor Rubin, who usually stayed in Fulan Harbor, were also here.

As Advent approached, the old year would soon be over, and Paul decided to gather his men to Lakeheart Town to summarize the gains and losses since the year and look forward to the future.

The lord had not yet arrived, and the men chatted about the many great things that had happened this year.

“From the news coming from the east, it seems that many more villages and towns have been robbed by the orcs since winter!”

“Alas, the rebellion in the south has made it impossible for the royal family to pull out too much power to support the northeast.”

“We’re much more fortunate here, there are rolling virgin forests and large mountains to the north.”

Both the north and east of the Kingdom of Aldo had mountains as natural barriers, but only the northeast region had a small plain in between the two mountains, which became the “Northeast Corridor” of Aldo to the northern prairie. Every winter, the beasts on the prairie will pass through here to plunder the northeast, especially when the “white plague” occurs on the prairie.

Because the northeastern “corridor” is far away from the kingdom’s hinterland, the orcs’ small-scale looting is not as threatening as the barbarian rebellion in the eastern highlands, and the rebellion in the south made it impossible for the top brass to deploy too much strength, so this year’s support for the northeastern region was only symbolic.

For the Kingdom of Aldo, this year is really an eventful year.

In the other people have for Alda in the position to celebrate a lot of time, in all the people present only the chief of staff Schroeder and has become the third battalion commander of the Joyce face with worry, the two of them in the northeastern region of the army stayed in, personally participated in the war to resist the orcs.

The two of them were emotionally attached to that piece of land, and naturally they were not happy to hear the news that the orcs had entered the country to loot it. Especially Schroeder, who had spent a large part of his military career there.

Seeing the crowd’s look of unconcernedness, Joyce couldn’t help but say, “Gentlemen, when the lips are gone, the tongue feels the chill, if the orcs see that the kingdom is exactly the time of weakness, and gather their forces to occupy the northeastern territories, their next target is probably us.”

Bryce made a fist-clenching gesture in mid-air, “Then we’ll use cannons to blast them back!”

Joyce shrugged, these people had never even seen the ferocity of the orcs, it was not comparable to the pirates and the peasants the lords had conscripted before.

But Joyce had seen it, those terrifying creatures that had grown up in harsh environments since they were young, were simply born for war. Even ordinary orcs were close to two meters tall, with thick and powerful limbs, and a maniacal temperament that could endure hunger.

Years of nomadic life had made them natural cavalry, and it was easy to gather a powerful maneuvering force.

Fortunately, they have a very poor concept of discipline, do not know the strategy, formation and the types of troops to cooperate, often with their own weapons on the hand to swarm, which gave the human army to win the opportunity.

While the hall was buzzing, Paul Gleiman led Chief Secretary Bernard and female advisor Miss Diaz in.

The crowd rose to greet the lord.

“How do you all do! Please be seated.”

Each of Paul’s three men sat down and the meeting officially began.

(End of chapter)