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Chapter 2179 Orc Curse Chapter 41
Mighty Brick and Kate Cat exchanged glances. Kate Cat nodded toward Beast King Lottie Sandrak, then hugged her knees, striking a pose like a beautiful statue.

Mighty Brick, who guessed that "thank you" was a safe word, was entrusted with the important task of communicating with Beast King Lottie Sandrak.

"The reason why the ghouls attacked your village sounds like they specifically targeted your village."

"You should already know the rules of the orcish region, right?" asked Lottie Sandrak, the Beast King, before continuing after receiving a definite answer.

"Under the divine decree of the Great Beast God, direct conflict between orc tribes is forbidden. All contradictions and disputes shall be decided by a duel between the leaders, witnessed by the priests who act on behalf of the gods."

"However, hunting for survival or to satisfy one's appetite is permitted, and ghouls who feed on orcs have the [privilege] of being able to directly attack other villages."

"Wait a minute." Dali Feizhuan interrupted, rubbing his forehead. "Aren't you orcs supposed to be one big family? Shouldn't these symbiotic orcs who feed on other orcs be treated as pests or natural enemies and eradicated?"

"That's why the ghouls targeted my village. They prefer to hunt orcs whose civilization is closer to that of humans. They say that orcs taste better, and you can smell their aroma from hundreds of miles away." When the Beast King Lottie Sandrak said this, she subconsciously frowned.

"Because the Great Beast God forbade any oracle similar to human civilization hundreds of years ago, the ghoul beastmen were called the Great Beast God's executioners by the priests. All the beastmen eaten by the ghoul beastmen were rebels who violated the oracle."

"Of course, in order to prevent conflict with humans, the ghoul beastmen are prohibited from leaving the beastman territory."

“No wonder,” Kate said, referring to how they used the ghouls to distract Azazel. “The ghouls are more interested in attacking Azazel’s people, not because of the hostility they’ve accumulated from their evil deeds, but because they find them tastier.”

“I and some other beast kings who share the same ideas also tried to solve the problem of the ghoul beastmen, but the beastmen’s way of solving the problem is dueling, which suits the ghoul beastmen’s interests just the way they do.”

Lottie Sandrak, the Beast King, threw a piece of firewood into the fire, making it burn even brighter.

The fire only illuminated the surrounding area, making the world outside the light source even darker.

“We want to resolve the issues between orcs and humans,” Mighty Brick said, explaining the plan to grow food in orc territory and trade it with humans.

In Dali Feizhuan's view, this trade was entirely beneficial. Humans could obtain more food from the orcish regions, while orcs could obtain more abundant and convenient living resources from humans to improve their quality of life.

After spending some time with the orc villagers, Dali Feizhuan gained a considerable understanding of orc civilization.

The orc village they encountered was probably the best-lived of all orc tribes, yet their lives were still quite monotonous, with food simply cooked and eaten.

With the Giant Kingdom Alliance guaranteeing the deal, and Hermes's Traveling Hat acting as the facilitator, this transaction is highly reliable.

Of course, this is from a human perspective, unilaterally believing that it benefits the orcs and is a win-win transaction, without taking into account what the orcs think.

However, Dali Feizhuan believes that from the orcs' perspective, this deal is beneficial. What they can gain from the deal is not important; what matters is that the deal itself can resolve a huge hidden danger within the orcs.

That was the Great Beast God. "I think you've misunderstood something more: rebels and traitors are two different things." Beast King Lottie Sandrak lowered her voice, seemingly quite displeased with the suggestion of throwing bricks with great force.

"My rebellious tribe and I are merely challenging the Great Beast God's position. This is in accordance with the rules that have existed since the birth of orcs, before the Great Beast God appeared. Other tribes will see this as courage and will cheer for it."

"Those who rebel will disobey the Great Beast God's decree and will be regarded as shameful traitors by all the beastman tribes. They will no longer be under the Great Beast God's grace and will be destroyed by the encirclement and suppression of many beastman tribes."

"No matter how steadfast your faith in the Great Beast God is, your life won't improve because of it. If your life gets worse, then faith in the Great Beast God is meaningless." Mighty Flying Brick had a general understanding of the orc civilization, so his words hit the sore spot of Beast King Lottie Sandrak.

"The Great Beast God's oracle forbids you from contacting humans, and goes to extremes by prohibiting anything similar to human civilization, including agriculture, which is extremely important to herbivorous beastmen."

"Without cultivation, land reclamation, and the artificial planning of edible plant growth, the only ways for herbivorous beastmen to obtain food are naturally growing plants and those dangerous plant monsters."

"The first meal your people, whose average level is around LV30, ate today came from mimicry plants with an average level of around LV70. You can imagine how dangerous that was. And it's still the warm season now. What will happen in winter?"

Lottie Sandrak, the Beastmaster, frowned.

Here, Dali Feizhuan cheated a little. He hadn't actually explored the orc region or understood its environment, but he did have some setting materials provided by the creators as a "selling point."

He wanted to state that he had absolutely no understanding of the creators' concept of "selling point," and that seeing those things only made his scalp tingle.

In winter, ordinary plants naturally go dormant, but those plant monsters, on the contrary, become active and even sprout from the ground to hunt animals for food.

Under this setting, winter becomes extremely dangerous. Even the most ordinary and docile plant-type monsters will enter a berserk state and actively attack any gathering place of any species.

A year after the game's launch, Mighty Brick Flying experienced a two-month-long winter, which was a terrible experience. Not only were monsters less active, but plant-type monsters were everywhere, making everything seem like a threat. The worst part was that plant-type monsters dropped the lowest-value materials and the least experience.

He almost couldn't withstand the two-month downtime and quit the game.

Ironically, what kept him going was the NPCs' measures to deal with the rampaging plant monsters in winter: every human settlement would hold a winter hunt during the winter.

Hunt wild monsters and use their stored fat to make heating devices that can burn for a long time. Place these devices around plant-type monsters in a circle around human settlements.

These heating items help to calm the plant-type monsters that have become enraged during winter, turning them into a natural barrier against other plant-type monsters.

At that time, there was an extreme shortage of manpower, and even strangers were recruited and treated equally, providing all kinds of monster target information.

This most agonizing period of inactivity actually brought him a sense of fun, a bittersweet experience.

(End of this chapter)