My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

"But this situation has not changed for thousands of years. Why..."

"Don't dwell on this issue any further. Anyway, the problem of wind and sand that harms the human body in the desert has been solved."

"I see." Carlisle nodded. "Then, are there any other things to note?"

"Yes, of course." Orson said, "Please inform every soldier that the only targets entering the desert this time are orcs, not half-orcs."

"The orcs have never participated in the war between orcs and humans. They are also oppressed by orcs. As the natives of the desert, the orcs can serve as guides to help our army quickly find the orc tribe and eliminate them."

"At the same time, even if we encounter orc tribes that are unwilling to cooperate, we should not use force. We should leave some food for them and let them see our sincerity. Then they will choose to trust us and cooperate with us."

"This..." Carlisle was so surprised when he heard Orson's arrangement.

"This is a bit too crazy..." he said.

There seems to be no other record of humans cooperating with other races, except in legends when fighting against demons.

Oh, there is also an Age of Dragons, but that is usually counted as part of the Civil War.

"Yes, we are in an era of great change." Orson said this and patted Carlisle on the shoulder. "General Carlisle, there will be more and more changes in this world from now on."

"I understand." Carlisle nodded after hearing this.

"By the way, Mr. Orson, it seems that Antica City is going to hold a banquet recently. It seems that His Majesty the Emperor initiated it. He said that it is to celebrate the great achievements made in this war. Mr. Orson, as the commander of this war,

Commander, I think you still need to rush back to attend as soon as possible."

"What?" Orson looked at Carlisle in surprise.

"When is the party scheduled to take place?" he asked.

"As far as I know, His Majesty the Emperor should arrive in Antica tomorrow, and the banquet should be held as soon as His Majesty the Emperor arrives."

"I understand." Orson nodded after hearing this.

It would have been fine if this banquet had been held before, but it had to be held when Lucius had this disease...

I'm afraid that someone with ulterior motives has obtained the information that Lucius is ill and wants to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble.

Orson thought so and sighed.

Why are family affairs always so bad?

……

Desert, Baru tribe.

Baru has been in a bad mood recently. Although he has been conquering nearby orc tribes and bringing them under his command with his own abilities, the casualties suffered in the civil war have reduced the strength of the orcs as a whole by more than half.

Before the war, the number of orc warriors was 300,000. Up to now, the number of orcs under Baru is about 10,000, and the number of other tribes added together is also around 10,000.

Only one in ten orcs are left.

Although the orcs have a fast reproduction rate and it will only take a few decades for them to return to their pre-war size, these decades are the weakest period for the orcs.

If there was a race that could ignore the invasion of wind and sand and attack itself, the orcs would really be wiped out.

But the sandstorm weather seemed to have disappeared recently, which made Baru even more worried.

He looked at the old orc who had become his military advisor, who was now drinking cold water leisurely.

"Senior, I don't know why, but I always have a bad feeling recently?"

"Oh?" Hearing this, the old orc looked at Baru. "Chief Baru, what are you worried about? Why don't you tell me?"

"In the past few days, there seems to be no sandstorms in the desert."

"This is normal," the old orc said, not caring about Baru's worries. "In the desert, this kind of thing happens from time to time. It's not like there will always be sandstorms. And we are currently at the outskirts of the desert. The deeper we go into the desert, the more frequent the sandstorms will be."

"I hope so." Baru nodded. "Now our tribe is the strongest among all the orcs. Basically, we can persuade the remaining tribes to surrender as long as we have time."

"When the time comes, we will follow your ideas and imitate the human system to carry out reforms. This is the way out for the orcs, right?"

"Yes." The old orc nodded.

"Alas, I hope the sacrifices of so many of our compatriots are meaningful." Baru said this and sighed.

"Chief Baru, you don't have to feel sad about their passing. Think about it, maybe not long ago, they were hoping you would die."

"They are just stumbling blocks on the road to the orcs' revival. Besides, you have confessed before the King of Beasts, so there is no need to feel guilty." The old orc comforted Baru.

"Yeah." Baru nodded after hearing that.

Then, suddenly an orc warrior ran in.

"Something terrible has happened! Chief Baru! Humans, so many humans! They are coming towards us!" The orc warrior said this, breathing heavily, looking very embarrassed.

"What? Why would humans come to us?" Baru said this, looking at the orc warrior in disbelief, and then turned to look at the old orc.

"Senior, what should we do in this situation?"

"This..." The old orc thought for a moment, and then said, "Maybe there really is no wind and sand outside these days. Why don't we retreat into the depths of the desert first?"

"It seems that this is the only solution for now." Upon hearing this, Baru nodded in agreement.

Anyway, as long as they go deep into the desert, they will definitely be protected by wind and sand. If humans still dare to pursue them, they will be sick and die from various diseases without the orcs' help. At that time, they will leave a large amount of food for the orcs.

Afterwards, Baru ordered the tribe to set out overnight.

After that, they marched for three days, but Baru's mood still didn't improve.

During these three days, they had been marching deeper into the desert, but they did not encounter the sandstorm weather they had imagined.

And human soldiers were chasing after them relentlessly.

He only had 10,000 soldiers, while the humans had a full 100,000.

Although there is no emperor

The Imperial elite such as the House Knights, but local elites such as the Black Army are still in this army.

It wasn't just Baru's army. Other orc tribes in the desert were also attacked by human armies. They would never have thought that humans, who had not dared to go deep into the desert for thousands of years, could go deep into the desert this time and nothing happened.

Late at night, Baru was sitting in the makeshift military camp. He looked at the old orc sitting next to him.

The old orc's expression wasn't looking very good at the moment.

"Senior, tell me, could it be that because of our brothers killing each other, the King of Beasts will no longer bless us..."

"That's impossible." The old orc shook his head firmly. "The King of Beasts will never abandon his creation..."

"Then why, why is there no wind..."

"This..." The old orc was silent for a while after hearing this, and didn't know what to say.

"How about that?" At this time, Baru suddenly said, "How about we fight this human army? If we retreat further, we will have to retreat to the temple. We don't want to see the land of the King of Beasts being trampled by outsiders..."

"That's fine." The old orc nodded. "Besides, we are not sure whether the humans have encountered sandstorms before. What if this group of human troops encountered sandstorms when they first entered the desert? Now they are actually facing us with illness..."

"Well, that's the only way." Baru said this and made up his mind.

The next morning, Baru gathered all the warriors in the tribe, distributed food, and finished their last meal. Then, he led the warriors to rush towards the human army.

As the warriors charged, the women and children continued to retreat to the rear under the leadership of the old orc.

Baru led the charge into the human army, hacking and slashing.

These orcs, with the mentality of killing one to make back their investment and killing two to make a profit, have almost lost their discipline.

The human army was not sick as Baru and the old orc had imagined. Instead, they were very vigorous and fought better than the average orc.

The result of the war was obvious. The humans won a great victory, while the orcs were completely wiped out.

Humans have no habit of taking prisoners, and when pursued by cavalry, no matter how strong the orcs' two legs are, they cannot outrun the cavalry's four legs.

After several days, the human army finally caught up with the elderly, the weak, women and children of the Baru tribe.

Faced with the pursuing human army, the elders and women of the tribe took up weapons first, followed by the young children.

As for the babies in swaddling clothes, most of them would have died under such harsh conditions, and the remaining babies would not survive more than a few days without anyone to take care of them.

The first phase of the clearing mission took half a month, and a thorough carpet search to eliminate the orcs would still require a lot of time, but the manpower and material resources invested in it were still much less than in the first phase.

On the other hand, Orson thought of a good strategy. He gave the city of Karls, which was originally planned to be an immigration city, to the orcs as their city.

When he collected intelligence on the orcs, Orson was surprised to find that the total number of orcs was only over 30,000.

You know, even if the orcs were killing each other to that extent, they still had 20,000 warriors and about 50,000 ordinary people, a total of about 70,000, and this was the lowest number of orcs in decades.

At its peak, the number of orcs once exceeded one million.

The number of orcs, however, remains fairly stable.

Originally, Orson thought that the development of the orcs would require the occupation of a lot of land in the eastern region, but now it seems that one city of Kars is enough to accommodate all the orc groups.

Of course, these are only the orcs in the desert. In the human empire, there are still many orcs serving as slaves or free men in various cities, but their total number would not exceed 100,000.

The number of humans is hundreds of times that of orcs.

If you think about it this way, the orcs can actually adopt a city-state development model. As long as the city of Kars is well developed, the orcs can live a very good life.

With the recommendation of the orc leaders, Arati, who had a good relationship with Orson, was elected as the temporary lord of Kars City and became the leader of the orc group.

Everything is developing prosperously.

Before all this, things were not so good in the Duchy of Antica.

When Litt received the news that Emperor Odysseus was about to visit the Dukedom of Antica, he was stunned at first, and then felt embarrassed.

If Odysseus comes, Lucius will have to come out to meet him, right?

Even if he stayed indoors on the pretext of illness, what would he do if Odysseus asked to come into the house to visit Lucius?

It would be fine if Lucius didn't fall ill during the visit, but what if Lucius suddenly fell ill?

It is very likely that a patient with this disease will suddenly say something or do something stupid. But if that becomes disrespectful to the emperor, even if Odysseus can forgive Lucius and escape the blame, the family's reputation will be damaged.

Just think about it, a family with a dementia-ridden head would be laughed at if anyone told others about it.

But after all, it was a letter sent by the emperor himself, and he had to reply. In desperation, Lit could only reply on his behalf.

In the letter, Litt implicitly expressed that Lucius was ill and might not be able to pay his respects to the emperor. After receiving the letter, Odysseus wanted to see Lucius even more.

No matter what, Lucius is also a close confidant of the emperor and has made great military achievements for the empire. Now he is injured. As the emperor, he has to come and take a look, either to take care of the feelings of his subjects or to achieve his own political goals.

After receiving the reply, Li Te felt even more overwhelmed. Helplessly, he could only take things one step at a time.

The invitations have been sent out and the dignitaries have begun to set off.

And some people are probably already waiting to see the Stranik family make a fool of themselves.

Just at this time, Mary took the test and challenged Leete again.

"Leet, are you sure you haven't found Randall in the past few days?"

"Yeah." Lit rubbed his forehead and nodded helplessly. "I'm sorry, mother, we searched the entire Dukedom of Antica and couldn't find any trace of Mr. Randall. I suspect he might have been kidnapped."

"Kidnapped?!" Mary said this with a suspicious expression.

"Leet, let me be frank." After saying this, she took a deep breath and then said, "I already know about the master's affairs. He has a poor memory and always treats me as his ex-wife."

"Why did you and Orson hide such a serious matter from me? Why did I have to go and see it in person to find out? Just because you are the master's children, am I not the master's wife?!" She questioned Litt loudly, making Litt feel ashamed.

"I'm sorry, mother, this matter...is mainly out of consideration for father's reputation..."

"Face, what face do we have as a family?" Mary said this, and then laughed in anger. "I think you don't even consider me as your mother. As soon as the master forgot about something, you started to undermine his power, and now you are kidnapping my confidants. Are you going to do something to me next!?"

Faced with the aggressive Mary, Orson could only make verbal concessions.

"I'm sorry, mother, but Mr. Randall's disappearance has nothing to do with us. We are also trying hard to find him..."

"Oh, trying hard to look for it? Putting up a few notices counts as trying hard to look for it? Why don't you look for the properties under your and Orson's names? See if there are any Tibetans there?!"

"Mother, please believe us..."

"Leet," Mary said, walking to the door. "Let me be frank with you. If you don't consider me a family member, don't blame me for being heartless and ungrateful."

Having said this, Mary slammed the door shut.

Looking at the closed door, Li Te sighed helplessly.

This wave of pressure has been withstood, but what should we do next when the emperor arrives?