The promise of slow wear for the rest of your life

Non-orcs are the "superior Tang monk meat" in the eyes of crystal beasts, and they will never be mixed with water.

Arnold proved this with his own experience.

Just like at this time, even though Arnold had already smeared special grass fruit powder all over his body before coming here to cover up his aura, he still became a group of crystal beasts rushing to attack as soon as he entered the battlefield.

In the blink of an eye, Arnold, who had just arrived on the battlefield, was surrounded by herds of beasts.

If he wasn't strong enough, even in a situation surrounded by enemies, he would still be able to handle it with ease. I'm afraid that when he first entered this place, he would be torn to pieces by the beasts frantically rushing towards him like he was addicted to drugs. .

After all, personal power is tiny.

Even though Arnold, Desi and others went to the front line one after another, they still couldn't stop the surging crowd of crystal beasts.

The defense lines outside the city were broken one after another.

By the seventh month of the beast tide period, none of the hundreds of lines of defense outside the city had survived.The orcs could only retreat step by step, and finally retreated to the city of Kyle.

The towering city walls around the city played an extremely critical role at this time.

The herd of beasts, who only knew how to charge forward, were temporarily blocked from the city wall.

Even the bird-like crystal beasts failed to break through the bed crossbow defense line densely set up on the city wall and attack the city.

The orcs in the city relied on the defense line built by the city wall, at the cost of sacrificing countless orc warriors, they held back the pace of the attack of the beast tide.

All the orcs in the city are united as one, and each of them is a true warrior who will never back down and will kill two more crystal beasts even if he dies.

It's not that they are not afraid of death, but they are more afraid of not being able to protect the non-orcs and cubs behind them.

For five full months, nearly half a year, the orcs in the city, except for the necessary rest time, were in the battlefield where corpses were everywhere and blood flowed everywhere at every moment.

When thirsty, he directly drank two mouthfuls of the blood of the crystal beast that had just been bitten to death, and when he was hungry, he directly gnawed two mouthfuls of the defeated crystal beast that was still screaming.

They are like this, and so are the raging herds.

At first, the orcs in the city could be assigned to clean up the battlefield. Later, the situation became more urgent, and finally all the members participated in the battle. Under the day-to-day fighting outside the city, the corpses of crystal beasts and orcs that were too late to be buried were piled up almost everywhere. .

In the late stage of the beast tide, Arnold, the only one in the city who was still fighting in human form, sometimes couldn't even tell whether this battle was a battle between orcs and beasts, or a battle between beasts and beasts.

Just when more than half of the orcs in the city were sacrificed and the defense line of the city wall was about to be breached, a piercing roar of beasts spread throughout the entire continent, saving the precarious city wall and the surviving orcs in the city.

After the loud roar of beasts sounded, the herds of beasts gathered outside the city, like soldiers who had heard the order to retreat, all dispersed in a rush, turned around and left this long-standing orc gathering place without any regrets .

The opponent ran away, but the orcs who fought with them didn't chase after them a single step. When the herd of beasts ran out of sight, they couldn't even raise their strength to cheer and rejoice, and they all collapsed to the ground.

At the same time, the blood-red scorching sun hanging high in the sky gradually faded away, the blood-colored clouds in the sky gradually dissipated without a trace, and the energy density contained in the air slowly decreased.

Between the ruins of the city wall that had collapsed at a corner, Anor leaned on a long knife and looked at the endless sea of ​​corpses and blood stretching away from the moat in front of him.

Among the beast corpses that formed a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, there were not only the corpses of crystal beasts, but also the corpses of ordinary ferocious beasts, as well as the corpses of orc warriors who fought in the form of beasts and never retreated half a step until their death.

The exhausted orcs only rested for a while, then managed to get up and work together to clean up the leftover beast carcasses on the battlefield.

The corpses of the orcs were buried with as many legs and feet as possible.

The corpses of the crystal beasts were all taken out of the beast crystals, skinned and cramped to remove all usable objects, and collected separately from the flesh and blood that could be used as food.

The corpses of ordinary beasts are also treated in the same way.

There was a mountain of corpses outside the city, and the surviving orcs worked together for several days to clear them all up.

At this time, the non-orcs and cubs who had been hiding in the underground safety zone for a year also returned to the ground.

Seeing the non-orcs and cubs again, it can be described as a mixture of sorrow and joy.

The good news is that they really only relied on the strength of the crowd to defend their beast city.This is enough to prove that they can really settle in one place for generations in the future.

Sadly, they paid a very heavy price for this.More than half of the hundreds of thousands of non-orcs and cubs lost their orc mates and fathers forever.

However, be it sad or happy, they don't have much free time to celebrate and grieve.

The non-orcs and cubs who returned to the ground spontaneously threw themselves into a new life without anyone reminding them.

Most of the non-orcs who lost their orc mates very quickly formed families with other powerful orcs who were either single, or had already had non-orc mates but wanted more non-orc mates, making them their own and even their own children's. Cubs rely on.

There are only a very small number of non-orcs who have lost their partners and have not yet formed families with other orcs.

And these non-orcs were not indifferent because they were hurt by the sacrifice of their own partners, but because they didn't want to wrong themselves and their cubs, so they didn't move for the time being.

When they meet powerful orcs who can provide them and their cubs with enough food and clothing in the future, these non-orcs will still form families with them without hesitation.

In the final analysis, all of this is just for survival.

About half a month later, Kyle City, which had been empty for a year, gradually returned to its former lively appearance.

At this time, the total number of orcs sacrificed in the city was also counted.

According to statistics, more than 17 orcs were sacrificed in the city in this battle.

Among them, adult orcs accounted for six to seven out of ten, young orcs accounted for two to three tenths, and juvenile orcs accounted for one to two tenths.

Even more than half of the first batch of more than a dozen powerful orcs who settled here died.Now the only survivors are Hawke, Desi, Muse, Oss and others.

The good news is that none of the non-orcs hiding in the underground safety zone was injured.

The cubs were also uninjured, and all the old orcs and non-orcs survived.

However, even so, for Arnold, they undoubtedly won this battle miserably.

But for the native Hawke and Diss, Ou Yamu Ula and others, and even every orc and non-orc living on this continent, this battle is their unprecedented battle of victory.

Looking at the beast tides in the past years, most of the orcs have not been killed or injured, and even those non-beastmen and cubs who hid in the caves at the bottom of the mountain will probably die because all the orcs guarding outside the mountain will die. , was found by the crystal beast who was good at drilling the ground, and devoured it.

At that time, they didn't have hundreds of defense lines outside the city to defend, let alone a solid and towering city wall to rely on.

They had to face the raging herd and fought day and night for a whole year.

In this way, one can imagine how high their death rate will be.

Let’s not mention it far away, let’s just talk about it this time.

Before the beast tide came, there were more than [-] orcs in the city. Because they didn't believe that the underground safety zone in the city could really protect so many non-orcs and cubs, they left Kyle City early with their families.

A year later, this group of people came back as long as they were still alive, either because they were curious about whether the city of Kell had survived, or because they hoped to continue to live a settled life without worrying about food and clothing in the future.

It's a pity that when they left, there were more than [-] people in total, and now only a few hundred people survived and returned.

It can be seen from this that if there is no beast city to rely on, once the beast tide comes, the death rate of the beastmen and non-beastmen who live on this continent all year round will be so terrible.

Since the statistics of the total number of victims during the war, Arnold has never smiled in front of others.

Diss could feel that his partner seemed to feel guilty about this.

In order to get rid of his partner's guilt, Diss managed to collect the battle situation of the orcs hiding in the mountains and wild forests outside the city, and then told Arnold about it.

Hearing what he said, Anol's mood really improved a lot.

Regarding this battle of defending the city, although Arnold felt a little guilty for the nearly 20 sacrificed orcs, he never regretted it. Until the end, he did not use those backhands he had left in advance.

Because, Arnold firmly believes that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

Although he can help them survive this beast tide, it is absolutely impossible to help them survive countless future beast tides forever.

Only when they become stronger themselves, survive the beast tide with their own strength, and even win the battle in the end, can their Kyle City truly gain a foothold in the continent.

Only in this way can all orcs and non-orcs living on this continent believe that they can really live a settled life, instead of just following in the footsteps of their ancestors forever, living a life of precarity and drinking blood for generations sojourn life.

Because of this, although Arnold feels guilty, he has no regrets.

And after Diss told him about the mortality statistics of the orcs outside the city, the little guilt that Arnold felt in his heart disappeared without a trace.

Facing Diss who wanted to make him happy, Arnold suddenly realized that he didn't need to be responsible for the lives of any orc warriors who died on the battlefield.

They defended the beast city with their own lives, and protected the non-beast people hiding underground.

They were willing to die and deserved to die, even though they died with honor.

As for him, Arnold, what he should do most at this time is to find out their shortcomings in this battle, remind them, and then take this opportunity to gather the strength of everyone to vigorously develop the Kyle Beast City and lead the Beast City. The surviving orcs and non-orcs, and even all the surviving orcs and non-orcs on this continent, create a better future.

By the way, complete the important task you have undertaken.

Thinking of this, Arnold was immediately motivated, and immediately called Diss to go to the City Lord's Mansion with him, and held a meeting with Hawke and others. :) :)