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Chapter 2162 Orc Curse Chapter 24
The scene was littered with skeletons, a veritable hell on earth. Dali Feizhuan worried about the game's rating; the visuals of this horror game were somewhat unsuitable for children. Regardless of the visuals, it wouldn't be good if it scared anyone.

He looked at a minor in the group, but the minor was eagerly waving the crowbar in his hand, showing no fear in his eyes.

Dali Feizhuan felt he was overthinking things. The moment a perfect dodge and counterattack appeared in a horror game, the nature of the situation completely changed.

He withdrew his gaze and took out a crowbar as well, but because of his physique and attribute perception, his crowbar was thicker and harder.

Shops that aren't even willing to recycle materials are even less likely to sell weapons to dangerous individuals like strangers. Players can only craft their own weapons or gamble on special missions that offer equipment.

Their limited resources led them to retrieve this weapon, known as the Holy Sword of Physics, from a treasure chest in the game's history. It was highly durable, easy to craft, and had been dubbed the "Holy Sword of Physics."

Besides crowbars, there are many other handcrafted weapons. Using good materials will improve the quality of the equipment itself.

Take this crowbar for example. It's infused with refined gold, making it a top-tier piece of high-level equipment, almost on par with the fairytale-grade equipment.

Tank warriors, carrying massive shields taller than a person, slowly advanced, while archers stood guard behind with specially made composite bows, and powerful brick-throwing warriors moved about casually.

They have better equipment, otherwise they wouldn't be able to participate in the sudden Titan attack. However, even good equipment has durability and needs maintenance, so they won't use it unless absolutely necessary.

Theresa, the intelligence provider, had mentioned that undead monsters existed here, so they were very likely capable of summoning skeletal soldiers. As they advanced, they mercilessly finished off the skeletons on the ground, mainly damaging their skulls.

Skeletal monsters are the lowest-level undead monsters. They are driven only by the heat of the remaining soul flames. Their heads are the central control points for their bodies. Once their heads are destroyed, even if they move, they will be unable to obey any commands or attack enemies.

It was precisely because of their attack on the skeletons' heads that they discovered the skeletons' identity—they were orcs.

The beast tide that came from the orc region was made up of orcs. There were no biological experts among the group, so they couldn't identify the species just by looking at the skulls, but they still had some basic common sense.

“How strange, these skulls are all completely different,” one person said, turning over the skulls on the ground.

"Not only are there skulls of carnivores, but also skulls of Cyclopes."

"That's an elephant's skull, the tusks are still on it."

"That's a Cyclops with big fangs. You can't deny the possibility of a Cyclops appearing in a Western fantasy world, can you?"

While they were chatting casually, they didn't overlook the key point: orcs never act collectively, or more accurately, they don't act in the name of the "orcs" collective.

In the eyes of humans, orcs are a large and diverse group, including cat orcs, tiger orcs, wolf orcs, elephant orcs, bird orcs, sirens, and so on. However, the orcs themselves are extremely divided.

The differences in skin color and birth weight among humans can be discussed for thousands of years, not to mention the differences in the heads they have.

Orcs will only act with other orcs of their own kind, unless they encounter a crisis that affects the entire orc race.

Those are usually large-scale natural disasters or major battles, such as the Crusades' offensive. However, this somewhat contradicts the fact that the Crusades' passes were destroyed by the beast tide. This is the most likely possibility. There is another possibility, which is very small but consistent with their speculation that the orcs actually have their own civilization: that a "commander" ordered the orcs to assemble and carry out this attack.

The answer only appeared because they expected it.

To verify this answer, we must delve deeper.

The entire canyon was covered with pale skeletons, like a three-dimensional painting depicting the fierce battle at that time. Human skeletons appeared occasionally, but most of them were already too decayed to be recognizable.

For some reason, the bones of the beastmen, who were called wild beasts, were much harder than those of the crusaders, who possessed the strongest faith and will among humans.

Legend has it that a paladin named Roland led the Crusader Expedition to the pinnacle of history, yet he resolutely set out on the expedition despite knowing that a plea for help from the Third Kingdom was a trap.

The believers and citizens of the Holy Cross Church have never hesitated to spread such stories; it was a trap, but the Holy Knight Roland went for the bait in the trap.

The kingdom that set the trap used the citizens of a city as bait to lure the Crusader army to fight against the monster wave. In the end, the paladin Roland died in battle, and his standing remains became a gate separating life and death. The life force called blood flowed from that remains to the city he protected.

That remains stood there for a full century, its flesh and blood neither rotted nor infested with maggots, nor were they devoured by crows. It stood there quietly, letting time shroud it in a shroud of corpses, until one ordinary morning it turned to dust and disappeared into the sunlight.

The reason for mentioning Paladin Roland is that he is not an exception, but simply the most outstanding one among them.

Every Crusader's remains is somewhat special, perhaps because of their faith or the Holy Communion they consumed. Most Crusader knights, after their deaths, do not attract flies or crows. Although they decompose, they do not emit a foul stench. A very small number, like the Holy Knight Roland, have their remains transformed into sacred remains, becoming part of the legends of the Holy Cross Church.

Of course, there are exceptions, namely the Fallen, whose bodies emit a putrid stench while they are still alive, transforming into evil pupae.

This process is truly like a worm metamorphosing from a pupa to an adult, completely melting the body and then building a completely different body based on the tainted flames of the soul.

The most holy believers can also become the most evil demons.

However, these corrupted demons are particularly susceptible to attacks with holy attributes, and their physical structure is perfectly matched to their corrupted souls, making them extremely filthy.

The bones they crushed so easily hinted at a kind of depravity, but they didn't sense any foulness.

Suddenly, they heard a sound.

At the end of the line of sight, where the gate once stood, stood a figure. He was like the legendary paladin Roland, standing there even in death, facing the enemy and with his back to the place he was protecting.

But the person was facing away from the orc region.

(End of this chapter)