Throne of the North.

Chapter 355: The Reappearance of the Orcs

There are countless topics of discussion in the Imperial Capital every day: the cold in the north, the war in the south, the ocean in the west, and the land in the east.

The prosperity coming from all directions dazzled the people of the imperial capital.

But in these few days, there are only two hot spots in the imperial capital.

One is the Queen of the Arena who fought her way to the Arena and defeated all the round-robin battles, sieges, abnormal monsters, and desperate environments.

Another one was in an unknown shop. There were no precious magic arrays to assist the flame of the furnace, and no extra tools to help control the balance and stability of the materials. There was only a hammer, a blacksmith's table, and a blacksmith with only the strength of a Golden Knight. He forged the first legendary weapon embryo of the empire this year.

What makes these two topics enduring is that they both come from the same place, the frozen land in the far north.

A month ago, the people of the Imperial City discussed the baron who had settled the Kingdom War. A month later, the baron's followers amazed them right before their eyes.

"The strongest person in the arena, the most powerful knight among the Golden Knights, was taken away by a woman?"

"I'm so envious. Why isn't it me? No, why isn't it Prince Jones whom I support?"

"Don't think about it. Your Jones was suffocated by Lord Bogold's hand under the water. It is said that he has not woken up yet. You should change and support Lord Bogold with me."

"But Jones is handsome. He is of ancient royal blood. He works so hard even as a wandering noble."

"He's not handsome anymore. Lord Bogeld punched him three times in the face. I heard that three bones were broken."

"Ah? Then I support Master Bogeld, too."

"..."

"Speaking of legendary weapons, is that true? Didn't the people in the Artisan Guild say that the embryo of a legendary weapon requires at least the blood and strength of a Sky Knight to be forged?"

"And in history, only five or six Sky Knights were forged, and the rest were all Saints or even Legendary Lords."

"Golden Knight..."

At first, no one believed it until the craftsmen on Craftsman Street gave the answer.

"Master Brock possesses superb skills, and he was able to forge the long sword named Amber because he has a body that never tires!"

"That is the legendary gift that every craftsman dreams of."

The tireless craftsman is not a true legendary gift, but if possible, the craftsmen are willing to exchange their legendary gifts for such a body.

In the shop, the bard tore up the complaint letter written to the Tundra Territory overnight. This was already the first several copies he had torn up along the way. It was because of this that Baron Ryan in the distance had not received any information from the caravan until now.

The amber sword forged by Master Brock has brought countless popularity to the shops in the Frozen Territory, especially to those who go in and out of the arena. They are avid fans of weapons and can't help but come in to see if Master Brock has any new weapons when they pass by.

"The Snow Dragon's Chant came from the hands of Master Brock."

As this news spread, more and more people bought the Snow Dragon Song series. They believed that one day in the future, Snow Dragon Song would become a legendary weapon.

What if it's the one they have?
No one would doubt the craftsmanship of Master Brock, who had forged the embryo of a legendary weapon.

The specialties from the Frozen Territory are also selling quickly, and some people have already started asking when the next batch of goods will be delivered.

This problem made the bard's scalp tingle. Telling stories was not the solution, so he took out his best skills and in just three days, he brewed a strong liquor that was praised by the craftsmen gathered here.

"The people of Exner are good at telling stories and drinking wine."

The bard also drifted away in the Imperial City, no longer thinking about Baron Ryan's orders, but focusing on himself, and even trying to build a reputation as a master brewer.

……

Frozen collar.

Ryan still hadn't received any letters from the southern caravan, but he no longer had the heart to wait.

"It's only March, why are the orcs showing up?"

To the north of the Andara Kingdom, traces of orcs appeared on the road that was formed due to the collapse of more than a dozen mountains. The soldiers of the Winged Canyon Army stationed in the castle north of the royal city discovered them.

The entire Andara Kingdom was horrified when they heard the news, so they quickly sent someone to inform Ryan.

The appearance of the orcs made Ryan ignore his own caravan and hurriedly led his cavalry to the Kingdom of Andara.

As for such a sensitive matter as the imperial nobles leading troops into the kingdom... no one cared during the whole process.

The appearance of North Wind Avenue was extremely correct. Ryan had already appeared outside the royal city in the evening.

"Not a hogg?"

Beside Adams, Count Mercers shook his head solemnly.

"No, it's the Rhino."

The rhino orcs are a huge tribe, but the tyrannical rhino orcs with heads like earth dragons must be the most bloodthirsty among them.

According to the records of a magician who likes to record world history, if the Rhino-Orc tribe can rule the entire Rhino-Orc tribe, they will be qualified to compete for the six kings in the huge orc system.

It’s no wonder that the nobles of the Andara Kingdom were frightened by such rumors.

The Hogwarts orcs have crushed them once, and now the Rhinoceros orcs are coming. Can the Kingdom of Andara resist them?
"I'll tell you after I go to the North tomorrow."

Early the next morning, Ryan led his army to the north and finally stopped far away at the Warthog Mountain.

"The Rhinoceros Beastmen didn't attack. Did the mountain stop them?"

Ryan sent people to search the surrounding area, and they soon returned to report that orcs had appeared in a village.

When they hurried over, they found the village in a mess and chaos. Upon seeing the nobles coming, the villagers knelt down and told the story of the orcs' brutality yesterday.

"Only two? I only robbed you of two goats?"

Ryan frowned, wondering why these orcs seemed a little unruly.

"Not only that, sir, that damn orc also ate ten of my chickens."

A man was crying. Those ten chickens were his source of livelihood.

Ryan left the village and sent cavalry to expand the search range. Finally, the knight's squire brought back two ferocious rhinoceros beastmen.

Their heads resembled those of a giant lizard tucked into its neck, but even more hideous. Their exposed fangs were like dragon teeth, and their protruding noses were topped with curved rhinoceros horns, which were also covered in scars.

The gray-white rock color is their protective color, and they can survive tenaciously in the north thanks to their two or three meter tall bodies.

On the surface, the gap between the Rhinoceros and the Hog Orcs is not that big, but if they really meet, the Rhinoceros will definitely have a higher chance of winning.

When they meet on a narrow road, the death rate of the two types of orcs is at least 70:30.

Fortunately, the Deinorrhinus beastmen are small tribes gathered together by bloodline. There are only a few Deinorrhinus in a tribe, about one or two hundred. After all, they cannot afford to support more than that.

As for the Warthog Orcs, that is a huge ethnic group. With the addition of the belief in Dusk, there are hundreds of thousands of Warthog Orcs in the vast northern world centered on that mountain.

Deinorhinus, or rhino orcs, are rare orcs in the orc family who care about their bloodline.

It is precisely because of this that the huge tribe of rhinoceros orcs, according to the magician who records history, are qualified to challenge the six royal orcs.

They are more intelligent.

"Why are you here? This is human territory, not orc territory."

Ryan asked loudly. The Devil Rhino struggled, staring at Ryan bloodthirstily, and opened his mouth from time to time to try to bite to death the Northern Warhorse that approached him.

The rhino orcs were relatively gentle, but the terrifying rhino orc was an exception. He struggled frantically and did not answer Ryan's questions.

Ryan glanced at the soldiers around him, and the knights and servants drew their swords and slashed at the rhinoceros orcs.

The gap between the Hog Orcs and them was also reflected at this moment. The grayish-white skin like rock helped the Hog Orcs block most of the sword. Although blood was flowing, the wound of the Devil Rhino Orcs was not very big.

They are heavier than the Warthog orcs.

The long sword kept chopping down, and the rhinoceros man was in more and more pain.

"Human, I won't tell you." "Kill him."

Ryan frowned, and a knight's sword fell directly, chopping off the rhinoceros' head.

"Find them out. This shouldn't be a large-scale orc invasion."

Ryan said, and the cavalry behind him scattered.

It is highly likely that the orcs will not swarm everywhere again, which makes Ryan feel a little relieved, and the Andara Kingdom, which got the result, can be said to be relieved.

"However, the population in the north will be relocated back, and more troops will need to be stationed in the fortress defense line."

Ryan said to King Andara, and after hearing this, Adams was also afraid for his own life, and directly ordered the nobles to immediately send troops to defend the northern front.

He didn't want to experience the fate of the royal city being captured a second time, especially now that he was the king.

Sometimes he often wondered whether it was because McPherson lost the royal city that he lost the throne, so Adams took this very seriously.

"Baron Ryan, I wonder if your army can stay here to help us fight against the evil orcs."

Faced with this request, Ryan was thinking, but soon the information from his own territory made him ignore Adams' words.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. Not only in the Andara Kingdom, but also in the north of my territory, there have been a lot of traces of orcs."

Ryan did not leave the army behind and quickly rushed towards his home. When problems arose at home, he had no time to care about the Andara Kingdom.

The cavalry roared, and Ryan's final promise to Adams was that if the kingdom encountered a large-scale war again, he would provide support in his own name.

This is understandable, as he holds the status of earl in the Andara Kingdom.

"Why do orcs appear on the edge of human territory?"

Although the orcs do not admit it, it is undeniable that the human race is loved by the gods and is stronger than the orcs.

That's why they were driven to the north, while humans occupied the warm south.

"Where were the orcs found?"

After returning to the Frozen Territory, Ryan inquired and found out that the orcs were an army returning from the North.

"After we completed the deal with Lord Areris, we saw orcs gathered around a campfire on the way back to the territory, not far from Rhino Horn Mountain..."

The soldier thought about what he had learned during this period and said:
"It should be a hundred miles, no, it may be dozens of miles. We passed through twelve mountains."

Very close.

Ryan came to the Rhino Horn Mountain and looked at the world to the north. The entire permafrost territory was like the bottom of a big bowl. The farthest place he could see was the frozen waterfall behind the frozen North Gal Lake.

Then Ryan came to the military camp and opened the door to Birki's plane.

"Notify the Armored War Bear Legion to stay in the frozen land territory from now on."

One after another, armored bears ran out from the portal of the plane. Each one of them had become much stronger. Ryan suspected that in a few years, his own plane portal would not be able to accommodate them.

"The watchtowers on the mountain should be patrolled 24 hours a day. I don't want to see any orcs entering the frozen land."

Ryan also sent more people to the watchtowers on the mountain, with twenty people in each watchtower, including one official knight, four apprentice knights, and the rest were militia.

"In addition, we have made plans to build a few more watchtowers on the mountain to ensure that all corners of the northern world of the frozen land are fully covered."

Ryan also urgently sent someone to the Alchemy Valley to ask Rose to make some flares so that they could be alerted immediately if any situation occurred.

If the orcs move south again, the current frozen territory will not be the same frozen territory that they could hide from before. The orcs will discover his territory at the first opportunity and then discover the prosperity here. His territory, Baron Ryan, will be the human territory that will withstand the attacks of orcs more than any other noble.

Naturally, Ryan couldn't help but be cautious.

Moreover, his territory was no different from the territories of other nobles. Apart from the castle on Rhino Horn Mountain which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, there were no extra lines of defense.

In the next few days, Ryan began to patrol the villages in the Frozen Territory. These villages were made up of natives from the alien world of the mountains and forests. Ryan would select patrol teams from these people. Living in the world of the mountains and forests, they were also well adapted to the complex environment of the Frozen Territory and were fully capable of doing this job.

Especially the people of the Grey Eagle Tribe, Ryan asked them to find a way to tame eagles. Although the effect was average, the eyes from the sky were indispensable to Ryan.

"Tell the carpenters and craftsmen to stop replenishing those equipment and focus on forging the giant crossbow."

Without a large army, strategic weapons are the best means to defend the Frozen Territory. If the Kingdom of Sera had not refused to sell the world crossbow from the elves, Ryan would have wanted to buy one to study.

The scouts sent out also brought back news about the orcs.

Not a black goat orc, but a werewolf.

Some say that werewolves were transformed from humans, others say that werewolves were transformed from a special kind of wolf beasts. In short, they are the only group in the orc family that can transform between wolves and werewolves at will.

At the same time - the wolf-orc tribe led by the Silvermoon Royal Court is also one of the six royal families of orcs.

Throughout the long history of the world, the exchanges between werewolves and humans exceed the sum of all other collisions between orcs and humans.

Before the Pan-Plane War of Gods, most orcs lived in remote areas, and legends of werewolves were indeed common.

However, soon another scout came to report.

"Not just werewolves, but also black goat orcs."

"Those werewolves eat the black goat orcs."

Wolves eat sheep, but black goat orcs have never been included in this list, because they are equally powerful, and black goats themselves represent the ultimate evil, and they have their own gods to worship.

Now there is an exception. Werewolves are hunting black goat orcs?

"A conflict broke out among the orcs?"

Ryan guessed so, and then he got the answer that night.

More than thirty black goat orcs and twelve werewolves attacked the watchtower on the north side of Rhino Horn Mountain. Twenty soldiers defended and fought, but still left three corpses.

None of the orcs died because it was night. The black goat orcs and werewolves were all adapted to the dark environment, especially the latter. The night posed no trouble to them.

Fortunately, the signal flare summoned the armored bear warriors and the orcs retreated, otherwise the watchtower might have been lost that night.

"As one of the six royal orc tribes, the werewolves are very intelligent. They actually knew to eliminate the sentry tower outside the human territory first."

During the day, Ryan stood in front of the watchtower and looked at the hideous claw marks on the surface of the cylindrical watchtower.

"They are the beasts that interact most with humans and can understand the meaning of all human actions."

“It’s not easy to deal with.”

Ryan took a deep breath and ordered the knights to patrol outside the territory. If the watchtower was lost, they could take it back, but if werewolves rushed into the territory, it would be a huge disaster.

Ordinary people have almost no power to resist werewolves and can only run for their lives.

"Werewolves are bloodthirsty. They need blood to maintain their energy, which is similar to vampires."

After returning to the castle, Ryan planned to write a letter to Earl William in the distant Stonehenge. Although he did not know the other party and the other party did not know him, both parties should have heard of each other's name.

Vampire Counts and Barons in the North.

The famous vampire became a noble legion in the empire, and the title of Vampire Count was similar to that of his father, the Dragon Knight.

The Vampire Count should be the noble who knows the most about werewolves in the empire. I hope to get some answers from him.

Ryan prayed like this. To be honest, he was unwilling to face any royal orc among the orcs, because every royal orc had the ability to destroy a kingdom.

Compared with a kingdom, the frozen land territory? Ryan shook his head. The gap was quite large. The efficiency brought by the population alone was not comparable to that of the frozen land territory.

Although the Empire will stop the orc invasion, it goes without saying that the Empire's army will not fight the orcs outside the Tundra Territory, so no matter what, the Tundra Territory is a piece of meat placed in front of the orcs.

If Ryan wants to defend his territory, he can only rely on himself.

(End of this chapter)