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Chapter 84 The Orc and the Rabbit

The speed of the collapse of the war situation exceeded everyone's expectations.

Even if Ivan immediately put down all the work at hand and tried his best to build a defensive fortress, when the orc strikers began to appear near the territory one after another, he only completed the first layer of defense.

The construction progress of the second layer of defense system barely reached 30.00%, and it only managed to block all the main roads of the territory with the help of mountains and hills.

No way, these orc soldiers are advancing too fast!

The armies of the various lords in the south were almost crushed in front of the orcs, as if all the dynamics were controlled by others. They were often raided at the deadliest link, and they were completely broken up before forming effective resistance.

This made the lords of all other regions of the entire kingdom wary.

There is a traitor!
And it's not just one or two, but an organization with a well-established network all over the kingdom, and an organization with a high status that joins the enemy as a whole and provides news for the orcs!
In a situation where life and death are a matter of all the nobles working together, this organization was found out without being able to hide for long, and the result surprised everyone

——It turned out to be a mercenary guild!
In everyone's impression, this has always been an ancient organization that almost never gets involved in any power disputes.

So no lord was on guard against them. As a result, this time they directly suffered a big loss!
"Are these people crazy?"

After receiving the news, the mercenary guilds in Lion City were surrounded almost immediately, and all the staff who were caught without a fight were imprisoned. Aiwen still felt very incredible about this.

Because according to his understanding, these guilds are like a joint multinational company, a super trust, that has transcended national and even racial boundaries and is linked by interests.

Under normal circumstances, absolute neutrality is the best choice to ensure their existence, even if there is a little trick secretly.

Considering the necessity of their existence, each family can tolerate it.

But if you end up rashly and get involved in an inter-ethnic war, that will only lead to your own destruction!

However, that's what the mercenary guild did. Even when many low-level members didn't know the news at all, they directly commanded senior members from all over the place to play spy wars.

But the strange thing is that on the side of the lion leader, the branch president that Ivan had met once, unexpectedly, did not become a member who received the order.

Therefore, under the raid led by Aiwen, this guy was at a loss, and he was very well-behaved and captured him without a fight.

After simple torture, more and more doubts began to emerge.

Why did the mercenary guild help the orcs?Did the other guilds also participate in it?

What happened to some members of the branch who did not receive the order? Is there still something unknown to the outside world?

In short, because of the sudden exposure of the mercenary guild, the already chaotic situation has completely turned into a pot of porridge.

Even the other four human kingdoms are said to have further fierce conflicts with the other two kingdoms of orcs in a state of war. With an inexplicable battle as the fuse, it is about to evolve into a war between the two races of humans and orcs. Large-scale decisive battle!

"What's wrong with this world? Isn't it good to live a stable life? Are they all crazy?"

After cutting down an orc with claws and teeth with a sword, Lilith took a step back to avoid the spray of blood, then turned her head and said to Aiwen who was inspecting the corpse of an orc.

"Maybe it's not these mortals who are crazy?"

Aiwen replied casually, and carefully looked at the so-called "orc" with his sword.

This translated word is actually the result of his willfulness at the beginning, but looking at it now, these guys are actually more reliable to call aliens.

That's right, it's what you think of, the kind of black carapace, with a tongue in the mouth and a mouth, the blood can corrode the ferocious thing of the alloy.

Of course, the two are just similar in appearance.

The orcs in the wizarding world have neither corrosive blood nor biting tongues, nor the ability to absorb genetic evolution, and their bodies are relatively soft and fragile.

However, other characteristics are similar, that is, the height is a little shorter, and it looks about 1.5 meters, which is on the same level as human beings.

This is actually very normal. After all, even Lilith, a trainee spellcaster, knows that the weird features Ivan mentioned are not magic at all. How can there be such seeds in the world?
Is the natural balance gone?

If you observe more carefully, you can find that there is another big difference between the two creatures-these orcs also have a pair of black, very secretive small eyes.

They also wear clothes and simple metal armor, and they hold a long sword in their hands. Even the natural barbs on their tails are equipped with a metal spear tip sheath, presumably to further increase their lethality. .

Of course, the orc helmet is omitted.

After all, the natural black bone plate is already thick enough, as long as it has eyes, basically it will not be cut there.

Going outside, what is also different from Aiwen's impression is that these orcs are not bred by some weird face-hugging bugs, but are bred like normal creatures.

Aiwen took a look at the risk of getting a needle eye, and determined that at least in terms of males, the organs are not even much different from normal humans.

(Of course, it is still different from the people on earth, harmony is the top priority, so I won’t go into details here)
"This is the orc."

After saying something with emotion, Ivan turned around and walked towards another completely different corpse.

At first glance, this is a kind of intelligent creature with the image of a fat rabbit, just like the old comic "Rogue Rabbit" in his impression.

Ai Wen freely understood it as a "giant rabbit man".

These giant rabbitmen are similar to the Imperial Association Army in the orc army.

Once an independent race, after a long period of conquest, they have completely integrated into the orc culture area and truly became a part of the orc empire.

Actually speaking, the reproductive speed of orcs is not very good.

This is the so-called balance of nature. Orcs have a stronger natural combat power than humans, so they will naturally be slightly weaker in terms of reproductive ability.

At this time, a large number of giant rabbits inevitably turned into soldiers and filled the orc troops.

Although the giant rabbit man is very weak, with a height of at most one meter, his naturally fat body is not suitable for fighting.

But I can't stand it, there are so many rabbits!

The breeding speed of this group of guys is five or six times faster than that of humans, and they can enter adolescence in just over a year. A large number of giant rabbit soldiers and orcs as the elite backbone constitute the standard military configuration of the war in the orc kingdom today. .

"An alternative companion?"

After kicking the giant rabbit man's body aside, Alvin waved to Lilith and the other paladins and began to return to the fortress.

This was already the third day after the first trace of a small orc army was discovered, and more and more orc scout teams began to appear around the defensive circle.

Even according to the intelligence sent back by the spies sent by the territory, an orc troop with tens of thousands of people had already left the southern part of the kingdom whose defenses had been completely shattered, and began to march towards the lion leader.

It is expected to arrive nearby within three to five days.

"The southern region, it is estimated that it has become a terrible purgatory now?"

Unlike the civil war, this is a war between different races. Except for some captives who are slaves, almost most of the human beings will be cleared and slaughtered by the orcs!

As the armies of the lords in various places retreat steadily, the human civilians in the abandoned territories will inevitably face an extremely tragic end.

"Damn politics!"

A young paladin couldn't help cursing in a low voice.

Ivan glanced at him, but said nothing, because this is probably what most people think now.

If there was no initiative to attack the orcs, and no suspicious and tragic failure, it seemed that the ethnic war that was already on the verge of relaxation should not have erupted.

At least it seems that it shouldn't appear at this time.

In this regard, Ivan actually has a different point of view.

Judging from the fact that the Beastman Kingdom is so well prepared for war, deploying troops so quickly, and even mobilizing the mercenary guild with unknown conditions, it's hard to say on the human side, but the orc side is definitely well prepared!

Even without the initiative of humans, the orcs are very likely to launch a new round of attacks in the near future!

(End of this chapter)