Except for the snow giants, no one in this place dares to march at night. It is already cold enough during the day, and at night the temperature in the snowfield can drop another ten to twenty degrees. If you don’t set up camp in advance and light a bonfire, you may not be able to reach the knight level.
Even good players might freeze to death in a night like this.
"Tal, Hypatia."
"Lord Legion Commander!"
Originally, Tal, Hypatia and others were sitting in front of a bonfire eating some food. When the tall orc army commander came over, they all stood up to greet him.
Tal reacted the fastest. He immediately put down the food in his hand and stood up as soon as he heard the sound. Hypatia was still unwilling to put down the food in her hand. She had to wait for Tal to give her a hint before she reacted and stood up.
Get up.
"It doesn't have to be like this. I'm just here to tell you about the next action plan."
"Legion Commander, please speak."
"Sit down, sit down."
The tall orc first sat on the open space next to the bonfire, then asked the Tarrs to sit down, and then said to himself:
"We are going to the Ironwood Forest soon. We don't know anything about the human territory outside the Ironwood Forest. We can't just enter the human territory like a headless fly. We will need Tal to lead some people to investigate when the time comes.
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"this is necessary."
"Understand the strength of the surrounding human lords, and it is best to understand the location and defense of Zhenbeiguan."
"The strongest lord in the human north should be the Lanster family. The Lanster family suffered heavy losses in our last trial. If Thor hadn't come to help, Piaoxue City might have been captured in such a short time.
The Lanster family probably won’t be able to recover.”
"Um"
The tall orc army leader nodded and motioned for Tal to continue.
"However, the Hunter family near Ironwood Forest is worth noting. This family united with many human lords. It also caused a lot of trouble to the ogres at that time, and it has some strength."
Apparently Tarr's understanding of the situation in the North was still at the time when Grugash returned to the wilderness, and he knew nothing about Richard's strong rise. He also regarded the Lanster family as the strongest family in the North, and regarded Hunter as the strongest family in the North.
The family is just a noble with some strength.
"Well, after entering the Ironwood Forest, I will lead most of the troops to find a place to hide in the forest. You and Hypatia will lead some people to cover up and go out to conduct reconnaissance."
"Yes, Lord Legion Commander."
"Have a good rest, I'll have to work hard for you then."
"You have priority in enjoying the food sent by the snow giant these days, and keep your spirits up first."
"Thank you, Legion Commander."
The tall orc patted Tal's shoulder, which looked a bit narrow, and said nothing more. After some encouragement, he turned around and left, and went to inspect other places.
"Brother, if there is mammoth in the food that the snow giant brings tomorrow, remember to leave a hind leg for me. It will be so fragrant when roasted."
"You want whatever you say you want, don't others pick? Do you still want to finish eating so much?"
"Why can't we choose? Didn't the legion commander just tell us to give priority to selection? Anyway, I can finish it."
Tal was a little helpless and lowered his voice slightly:
"After all, we are half-orcs, so be careful, otherwise some people will be dissatisfied."
"Who dares to be dissatisfied if I don't cut out his tongue?"
"Brother, we are both imperial samurai, do we need to do this?"
Tal looked at his sister's indifferent look, smiled bitterly and shook his head,
Thinking that she was too protective, Hypatia had not yet felt the malice towards the orcs from all parties in the kingdom.
Because there is no reproductive isolation between humans and orcs, the two sides naturally produced some hybrid species during the long-term war, which are the so-called half-orcs.
It's okay on the human side. Although they are also discriminated against, half-orcs' physical fitness is inherently better than that of humans. Even if they don't reach the level of quasi-knights when they reach adulthood, they are much stronger than ordinary humans. With a little investment of resources,
You can steadily step into the threshold of a quasi-knight. Without being targeted by the Golden Dragon Kingdom officials, it is easy to find a way to survive.
The Orcs in the Golden Dragon Kingdom are basically concentrated in the Western Territory. The terrain in the Western Territory is complex, with deserts, grasslands, and mines mixed together. The forces of all parties are intertwined. Most of the time, it is all about the sword. Who can bother to discriminate against the Orcs?
Woolen cloth,
Moreover, half-orcs with strong bodies can do well in the West. Everyone is willing to raise a few half-orcs who can fight. Take Ross, the Duke of the West, as an example. The West Army has a desert wolf composed entirely of half-orcs.
In the Samurai Order, more than a thousand orcs all practice breathing techniques, and all of them are at the level of quasi-knights. After receiving strict military training and being fully armed, they became one of the sharpest blades in the hands of Duke Ross.
Half-orcs who were born in the orc kingdom have a hard time. Not only are they discriminated against by ordinary orcs, but they are quite strong compared to humans, but they are completely thin in the orc kingdom. Almost all orcs are young and strong.
The ability to reach the level of a quasi-knight is three times that of ordinary people. Half-orcs are bullied in the orc kingdom and are born to be lower than others.
Only half-orcs like Tal and Hypatia, who have reached the earth level with their strength, automatically become royal warriors according to the rules of the orc kingdom and have such status.
But with strength and status, Tarr is even more cautious in front of the real orc nobles. He knows that as a half-orc, there are many people in the kingdom who can't stand it.
Even the leader of this operation, Legion Commander Wu Zi, just didn't show this disgust clearly, but Tal could still feel a little bit of rejection, but now that Orcs were used, he only made a little superficial effort.
That's all.
"Forget it, there's enough food for these two days. Let's all eat well."
Tal and Hypatia were not the only half-orcs in the team. The dozen or so people around the bonfire were all half-orc elites selected from the orc kingdom, and they were at least knight-level in strength.
Compared with orcs, half-orcs at least have certain advantages in detection. Although they are tall, most of them are not more than two meters tall, and they are still within the normal human range. Their facial features are not that obvious. They wear a hat or a face mask to cover up. In addition to being strong
Some of them can't be seen to be much different from humans. They are not as eye-catching as orcs. It is naturally much more convenient for them to conduct reconnaissance in the North than orcs.
"Brother, you don't care enough. If anyone dares to say that word in front of me, I will remove his head on the spot."
Although Hypatia has a beautiful face, even by human evaluation standards if height and skin color are not considered, she is not as ferocious as the orcs at all, but her temper can be called violent, not inferior to the orcs at all.
Others might think that Hypatia just said harsh words, but Tal knew very well that Hypatia meant what she said and her actions were never ambiguous. If he hadn't stopped her a little in the early years, Hipati would have
Tia's war blade has long been covered with more than just human blood.
"Okay, okay, calm down your temper, don't just think about your own happiness."
Hypatia still had an indifferent look on her face, looking at the sky and playing with the dagger in her hand, but she did not continue to talk back. She was just a little irritable, but she was not stupid. She still knew her brother's
The difficulty is that the two brothers and sisters are the representative figures of the orcs in the orc kingdom, and they need to pay attention to every word and deed.
As for the surrounding circle of orcs, they didn't even dare to answer these questions. They all squatted silently by the campfire and roasted some food. Some even started to change this embarrassing topic.
"The prey sent by these snow giants is really good."
"Yes, the meat of this mammoth is so chewy."
"These meat-consuming meats are not bad. I don't know where these snow giants found these prey in this vast white snow field."
"If the snow giants hadn't brought us some prey along the way, we probably wouldn't have been able to get out of the snowfield with the dry food we had."
Tal and Hypatia fell silent at this moment, as if all their energy was spent on destroying the food in front of them.
Hypatia flexibly turned the short knife in her hand, shaved open a half-roasted beef leg, and sprinkled some salt on it.
"Brother, give it."
"Um"
Tarr didn't refuse, he opened his mouth and bit off a piece of beef leg meat from the short knife. There was a high level of trust between the two.
"I don't know what conditions His Majesty and the Snow Giants reached to allow the Snow Giants to be so helpful. I thought it would be good if they could let us pass, but I didn't expect that they even provided food along the way."
"Don't think so much about things you shouldn't know."
"snort."
"Eat well and rest well. Don't be so willful when you enter human territory in a few days."
"Okay, okay..."
Hypatia responded perfunctorily, and Tal could only helplessly shake his head.
The night sky in the snowy field was pitch black. When Tal looked up, he saw only endless darkness. This black, empty and terrifying night sky made Tal feel a little depressed. He had always been regarded as the hope of the half-orcs, and he was also the minority group of half-orcs in the orc kingdom.
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However, his long-term efforts only made him more and more disappointed and even desperate. Half-orcs have always found it difficult to live a normal life in the orc kingdom. Instead, they always have to worry about being purged by radical orcs. This is why Tal has always been cautious.
I heard that there are also many orcs living on the human side. I wonder how the orcs are doing there...