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Chapter 2180 Orc Curse Chapter 42
"Your Excellency Beast King, you have lived for hundreds of years, surely I don't need to explain the dangers of winter to you?" asked Mighty Flying Brick.

"May I ask you orcs how you deal with the winter riots of plants?"

Lottie Sandrak, the Beastmaster, did not answer; silence was the best response.

The law of the jungle prevails; they deserved to die.

Dali Feizhuan has speculated on how orcs in the orc region survive the winter.

First of all, there is no migration. The premise that some animals migrate before winter is that the Earth is a sphere with rotation and revolution, so spring, summer, autumn and winter exist on the surface of the planet at the same time. But the map here is a huge flat plane that shares day and night, and naturally shares spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Therefore, the only ways orcs can survive the winter are to molt, store fat, enter a semi-hibernation state to slow down their metabolism, and change their diet.

For carnivorous orcs, this is not a problem. The rich ecology of the orc region means they have no shortage of food and can store a lot of meat, as long as they are not afraid of other orcs stealing it.

However, the problem with herbivorous beastmen is much bigger. The further down the food chain you go, the more numerous and diverse they become. Although herbivorous beastmen and carnivorous beastmen both belong to the beastman race, the diet of herbivorous beastmen is shared with that of herbivorous monsters.

What is a rich ecosystem and abundant food for carnivorous beastmen is a true survival rival for herbivorous beastmen.

Fortunately, herbivorous beastmen have a strong reproductive capacity, otherwise they would have become endangered beastmen long ago. However, surviving does not mean that they live well. On the contrary, the lives of herbivorous beastmen are quite difficult, and winter means death.

Under the Great Beast God's overcorrection of forbidding contact with humans, carnivorous beastmen were largely unaffected, while herbivorous beastmen truly suffered terribly.

After a long silence, Beastmaster Lottie Sandrak slowly spoke.

"...Long ago, before the Great Beast God issued his divine decree, the herbivorous beastmen had already learned to cultivate the land through their interactions with humans. I heard my mother say that the winters back then weren't so bad; all they had to do was keep other herbivorous monsters at bay."

"Back then, we didn't even need to fight herbivorous monsters. Our stored food was a natural bait, and carnivorous orcs would come to help us guard the granaries. At that time, winter was the best time for the relationship between carnivorous orcs and herbivorous orcs."

"But after the Great Beast God issued an oracle following my mother's capture and rescue, the herbivorous beastmen's farmland was seen as an act of rebellion and proof of it, and was burned to ashes..."

"My first winter was one of cold, hunger, and death, and every winter after that was the same, except that I became stronger and numb to winter."

"So that's why you became the leader of the rebellious tribe?"

“One of them,” Beast King Lottie Sandrak emphasized. “The rebellious tribes appeared before the Great Beast God issued that oracle banning human civilization. However, before the oracle, they were simply ambitious tribes that wanted to challenge the Great Beast God's position. As for now…”

Lottie Sandrak, the Beastmaster, didn't say it explicitly, but the meaning was clear: she had previously been just a challenger wanting to take his place, but now she was genuinely considering the future of the orcs.

“In other words, no, I can understand what you’re saying as…” Dali Feizhuan probed, “not only you and your village, but the orcs themselves actually want to establish diplomatic relations with humans.”

"I don't think so. I'm wary of humanity!"

Lottie Sandrak, the Beastmaster, suddenly raised her voice.

“I’ve always felt that my mother had a morbid feeling about that Crusader knight, like a herbivore falling in love with a hunting carnivore. This morbid feeling made her believe that orcs and humans could live in harmony, and she passed this feeling on to her descendants.”

"In fact, this feeling will only make orcs less wary of humans and fall into terrible traps." "Is that so?" Mighty Brick looked at the Beast King Lottie Sandrak and suddenly realized.

This excitement, this resistance, is actually a way of arguing with a mother who has long since passed away.

The current Beast Queen, Lottie Sandrak, is dozens of times older than her mother was when she died, not to mention her status and perspective.

In the eyes of Lottie Sandrak, the Beast King, his mother's ideas were not only naive but also distorted in their origin.

But this was an idea that her mother clung to until her death, and she herself grew up listening to this idea.

"That is indeed a naive idea. If this naive idea continues, who knows if it will lead to the best result that everyone agrees on."

Dali Feizhuan nodded in agreement with Beast King Lottie Sandrak's statement.

“But we can make this the best ending for your mother, for you.”

"Humans are indeed untrustworthy," Lottie Sandrak, the Beast King, snorted.

"Huh!?" Dali Feizhuan was taken aback. This wasn't going to follow the script. Shouldn't his passionate, protagonist-like speech have earned him trust?

"Saying such nice things, you're obviously not a decent person." Beast King Lottie Sandrak stood up, but not because she said something wrong and entered the battle line.

"But if you can do what you say nicely, then you are a trustworthy person."

"So, does this mean we've reached a cooperative agreement?"

"Don't be so naive. The risks of cooperating with humans are not something you can make me choose to bear with just a few words." Beast King Lottie Sandrak took a deep breath, clenched her fists repeatedly, and struggled and hesitated for a long time before finally speaking.

"I can only give you one chance. Only if you can persuade the other seven beast kings of the rebellious tribe and then kill the seven beast kings of the tribes outside the rebellious tribe can this matter be accomplished."

"I can understand persuading the seven Beast Kings of the Rebellion Alliance, but killing the other seven Beast Kings is..."

"Rebels are rebels because they disobey the Great Beast God's decree and the rules of the [Beastmen]. But if half of the Beastmen choose to disobey and resist these rules, then it is not the Beastmen who are disobeying the rules, but the rules that are disobeying the Beastmen."

“I see, the law doesn’t punish everyone.” Mighty Brick stroked his chin, understanding what Beast King Lottie Sandrak meant.

There are 22 Beastmasters in total. After persuading the 8 Beastmasters of the Rebel Alliance and then killing the 7 Beastmasters, more than half of the remaining 15 Beastmasters will stand on their side.

More than half of the Beast Kings and the Beastmen they represented stood with them, rendering the Great Beast God's oracle meaningless.

Dali Feizhuan wasn't confident in persuading the carnivorous orcs, but he was somewhat confident in persuading the herbivorous orcs because they lived poorly.

(End of this chapter)