Successors of all mankind

Upon hearing a familiar name, Yu Le hurriedly went to the window and glanced at the approaching orcs.

After seeing that they were not green-skinned orcs, but traditional orcs with the appearance of various beasts.

Yule is both relaxing and frustrating.

'That works too, at least they're not greens...they won't take a waaagh stance.'

Come to think of it, with elves appearing, it's not surprising that orcs are also present.

No wonder that clerk or whoever it was before suspected that Daimon and the others had believed in the alien race...

At the time, Yu Le was still wondering whether this "foreign race" referred to a cultural concept or a literal one.

Now I finally know the answer.

"Don't worry, Mr. Yule, this place isn't too far from Numen Nor. My guards will definitely be able to hold out until Numen Nor receives reinforcements!"

"Please rest assured, I can guarantee your safety!"

Compared to Yule's dramatic mood swings, Miss Windsor was trying to soothe Yule.

She was certain that the main purpose of the orcs' attack was probably to target her and Yu Le, the two high-ranking nobles.

Once they've kidnapped them, the beasts can demand a large ransom from Albion or Robespierre.

As for whether what was summoned was the kingdom's army or envoys, that remains to be seen.

It's something that wild beasts simply can't consider.

All they need to know is that there are one or two skinny monkeys here that are valuable.

"More than that, Miss Serena, I want to know what crime the royal nobles committed by colluding with these beastmen?"

“Only nobles of marquis rank or above can be pardoned for capital crimes. But even then, they will be stripped of all their land and privileges. The entire family’s descendants for the next three hundred years will be used as blood tax.”

Why are you asking this?

Miss Windsor answered Yu Le's questions quickly.

Yu Le then looked at the other person and said:

"Because I think it was that old bastard Hudson who did it, I think we should think carefully about asking the slaves of Nor for help."

Diverting the disaster eastward.

Yu Le felt that this must be the old man's trump card that he had prepared for him.

But this means that he not only guessed that he had been tricked into switching things out with someone else.

He even dared to intercept and kill Miss Windsor, a tribune from the capital, for this reason.

It is clearly impossible to risk exposing such a serious crime just to save face.

This can only mean that he was already 'dead'.

Therefore, colluding with orcs is undoubtedly the answer.

It seems that the problems at settlement 386 are also related to the orcs.

Miss Windsor was very clever and understood the key hazard without much explanation.

After a brief pause, she gave the order to the outside:

"Raid on the slaves of Nor!"

"My lord, they're surrounded by orcs! We should hold our ground with our backs to the ruins! I've already contacted our slave Nor! Reinforcements are on their way!"

"Can you contact the capital? Or perhaps Saga or Castelber, who are a bit closer?"

"No, sir, the orcs have interfered with the communications!"

"That means it's either the orcs or the slave Nor who's interfering with our communications! Because those beasts have no ability to interfere with our communications!"

The resolute answer left the guard commander outside momentarily stunned.

"But, but wouldn't this just be walking into a trap?"

The guard commander looked hesitantly at the massive orc legion.

This annoyed Windsor somewhat. The Windsor family did not have its own private army, so this was not her personal guard; it was merely a force that the Kingdom of Albion had assigned to the tribunes.

They weren't even troops from the capital; they were local troops she was transferred to after entering the province.

Their equipment and personnel were indeed quite good; after all, this was the face of the kingdom, and the local nobles couldn't allow her to get into trouble on their territory.

However, they could not carry out her orders unconditionally.

Because the superior-subordinate relationship among us is only a kind of 'cooperative relationship'.

"That's why we only have these beasts behind us! If we charge through, we can get back to Numennor. Once everything is out in the open, Hudson will have no choice!"

The guard commander was persuaded, and he then turned around and directed the convoy to charge back at the orcs.

"Form a wedge formation, place the tribunal in the center, and we'll counter-charge! Leave everything else behind!"

The tribunal's convoy consisted of a total of thirty-two vehicles, of which only eleven were used for combat.

After all, no one could have imagined that someone would dare to attack a tribunal within the kingdom's borders.

However, if it's just a group of orcs, that should be enough.

It was at this moment that Yu Le said:

"If we can break through, Robespierre will reward us handsomely!"

This sentence is undoubtedly the most comforting thing on such a terrible day.

"Don't worry, sir, they're very disorganized. We can get through them!"

The guard commander, letting out a long breath, drew his sidearm and whistled.

The eleven fighting vehicles were reassembled like a sophisticated machine.

The lead car accelerated and charged forward, with the cars on both sides following to provide cover. The tribunal and the musicians were tightly surrounded in the very center.

Then, a counter-offensive was launched!

The orcs' encirclement appeared to be vast, but in reality, it was chaotic and disorganized.

There was no effective command between the different parts, nor any coordinated formation; they were all charging forward with sheer brute force.

The guard commander seized on this opening.

He drove the lead vehicle straight into the gap between the two orcs, then opened fire from both flanks simultaneously, tearing a gap open between them.

Yu Le sat in the carriage and only felt the carriage sway slightly a few times.

Gunshots rang out like popping beans outside the window, the war cries and screams of orcs mingled together, along with their own, but those sounds grew fainter and fainter.

Within minutes, the convoy had passed through the gap.

Behind them, the orcs were in complete chaos. Although they thought of giving chase, there were too many of them, and they were too disorganized.

In the rush, the majority of the troops didn't have time to turn around.

Only a few managed to catch up, but that no longer posed a threat to Yu Le and his group.

Chapter 57 Dragon Seed

Listening to the sounds getting farther and farther away behind me.

Yu Le's tense nerves finally relaxed.

He almost thought he was really going to crash today.

I never expected it to end so peacefully.

Miss Windsor, sitting beside him, calmly asked, looking outside:

"Report losses!"

"Sir, we only have six vehicles left. Three are severely damaged but still drivable, and the other three are performing well. The enemy... the enemy has confirmed that they can no longer pursue us!"

The guard commander's voice was very cheerful.

They actually managed to break through!

This was a result that even he himself hadn't expected.

He was overjoyed at the thought that after the matter was over, he would not only receive double rewards from the capital and the local government, but also an extra reward from Robespierre.

He couldn't stop his heart from surging with emotion.

Even though it involved sacrificing his brain, it was a really good deal!

Listening to these delightful sounds, I am very happy to offer my praise and promise to send you a generous gift.

Although he wasn't Robespierre, he still had hundreds of thousands of pounds that old Hudson had!

Before he could speak, Miss Windsor suddenly grabbed his hand.

"What's wrong, Miss Serena?"

Yu Le strangely followed the other person's gaze and looked straight ahead.

But they couldn't see anything, only a large patch of dark clouds in the direction of the ruins.

"run!"

"what?"

"Run!"

"A dragon! A dragon is coming—!"

Yu Le didn't have time to understand this sentence.

The next moment, it was dawn.

It's not as bright as the sun.

Instead, it was a light that rose from the ground, white to blue, that devoured all colors.

It surged in from the direction of the great ruins without making a sound, at least not at first.

Light arrives first, then heat, and finally sound.

Yu Le saw a scene through the car window that he would never forget for the rest of his life.

The mountains in the northwest, those black boulders that have stood firm against millions of years of wind and sand, curled up, melted, and evaporated like paper in that instant.

There was no collapse, no shattering; it simply vanished. From the foot of the mountain to its summit, from the rocks to the air, everything was instantly licked clean by a blazing flame that fell from the sky.

The source of that raging fire was above the clouds.

The heat wave arrives after the light.

The sandstorm swept everything wildly, but it brought with it high temperatures.

The car windows started to get hot, and the air inside the car became like an oven at midday in the desert.

Although the temperature dropped after a short while.

But Yu Le still felt like a fish that had been thrown ashore.

Finally, the sound arrived.

The roar of the dragon made the earth groan and the sky tear apart!

The orcish group at the very back, with hundreds of vehicles and thousands of warriors, was nestled not far from the vaporized mountains.

They were only grazed on the edge of the heatwave before these rugged vehicles began to melt, burn, and explode.

Before the orcs could even let out a proper scream, their bodies were ignited by the intense heat and turned to ashes as they ran.

The five-meter-tall bull-headed giant, and its wild chariot, also slumped down like a candle in the heat.

In his final moments, he opened his mouth wide, as if trying to say something, but his voice was swallowed by a buzzing sound, and nothing came out.

From the appearance of the dragon to the destruction of the orcs, only a few breaths passed.

And the dragon hadn't even revealed its full form yet.

It was only at this moment that Yu Le realized that what he had just seen was not dark clouds, but a giant dragon that had blocked out the sun!

"The dragon is coming towards us!"