Chapter 739: Decisive Killing

They have become the past now. The main body was completely defeated by the conqueror army. Although some of them fled to the Giant Plains, they can no longer become powerful and can only become vassals and thugs of other monster tribes.

The tribe second only to the Troll Kingdom is the Earth Elf Tribe. Their organized warlord characteristics make them very competitive in the wilderness, and the Giant Plains is no exception.

It's just that they are the priority annexation target of the Blood Gorge City Earth Elf.

Now in the Giant Plains, except for the Blood Gorge City Earth Elf, there are no other large-scale and organized Earth Elf tribes.

They have either become part of Blood Gorge City, or have fled far into the Giant Running Mountains or the Troll Mountain Area to hide.

When the two leading races were defeated, the races that were originally suppressed by them naturally came from behind, and they were those dirty orcs.

In Faerun, orcs are synonymous with barbarism and destruction.

They rarely engage in production. The living materials they need are either provided by enslaving other races or plundered through wars. They will not let go of not only the intelligent races, but also the monster races.

They can be found everywhere in the wilderness. Both intelligent races and monster races hate them and maintain a high-pressure war state.

But they have never been exterminated. On the contrary, many towns of intelligent creatures have been occupied and destroyed by them, and many monster tribes have been destroyed by them.

This is mainly related to two aspects.

On the one hand, it is naturally their strong fighting power. This humanoid creature has a pig-like face, huge fangs protruding outside the lips, hunched like a gorilla, dragging a pair of thick arms, and is as tall and strong as the earth elves.

If fighting alone, at the same level, the earth elves are unlikely to be the opponent of the orcs. They are natural barbarians, most of whom have bloodthirsty and violent characteristics and uncontrollable killing desires.

But if fighting in groups, the disciplined earth elves are often more advantageous.

For intelligent creatures led by humans, earth elves and orcs are synonymous with devils and demons in the world.

If you encounter a war group of hobgoblins, you can use negotiation, trade and other means to temporarily appease them with huge benefits like drinking poison to quench thirst - they will take advantage of you and come back with more powerful forces.

If you are facing a surging orcs, you should be prepared for a fight to the death. Either you turn them away or they will conquer you. Men will become slaves or food, while women will face a more miserable situation. They will be used to vent their beastly nature. They will often become reproductive tools for orcs.

Here we have to mention another extraordinary ability of orcs. They have received the blessing and gift of Rusek, the wife of the orc god Gruumsh, the orc goddess of fertility, so that they can reproduce blindly and frequently, giving them a stronger reproductive ability than all humanoid races, even not inferior to goblins and kobolds.

Twins or even multiple births are common among orcs, eight out of ten are, and they grow faster than ordinary humanoids. Their fertility matures at the age of seven or eight, and they enter adulthood at the age of eleven or twelve.

Theoretically, their lifespan can reach sixty or seventy years old. Their average age in Faerun is no more than twenty, and it is rare to live past forty.

The most evil thing about this reproductive blessing is that it makes it easier for orcs to break reproductive isolation and produce mixed-race offspring with other races. When humanoids of similar size (such as humans, dwarves or hobgoblins) combine with orcs, their offspring will only be orcs or half-orcs.

When orcs combine with ogres or trolls, they will be half-orc ogres or half-orc trolls with amazing physical strength and savage characteristics.

There may even be half-orc giants, but this possibility is very small. Orcs are more like cannon fodder or slaves in front of giants.

There is also a rare situation, where the beastly orcs set their sights on the livestock, giving birth to more twisted, deformed, half-human, half-beast orcs.

They are not beastmen, they do not have the ability to transform and spread beast disease, they are just monsters cursed and resisted by the gods.

Therefore, when most intelligent races know that the enemy they are facing this time is orcs and they cannot defend themselves, they would rather kill their wives and daughters with their own hands than let them fall into the hands of orcs, accept inhuman treatment and torture, give birth to filthy blood, and bring disaster to others.

The number of half-orcs in Faerun is far more than people imagine, and their reputation is extremely bad. Only in a few places will they not be discriminated against and targeted.

They not only have the strong physique of their fathers, but also the intelligence of their mothers. Those half-orcs who find their place in the orc tribe are usually not too low.

What really limits the development of the orc population is not the situation of being enemies all over the world, but food.

As long as they have enough food, they will spread like cancer cells on the earth.

In short, they are human locusts, and from time to time they will gather together and cause a bigger orc disaster.

Compared with other places, the orc disaster in West Heartland is more frequent because there are two huge orc production areas, the High Waste and the Eternal Waste.

The orcs produced by the former threaten the safety of Waterdeep to the north and invade Baldur's Gate to the south.

More than ten years later, the orcs produced by the latter, led by a tribe called the Arrows, swarmed out and established an orc kingdom called Dark Arrow near the Silver Moon Alliance, which was regarded as the biggest threat by the Silver Moon Alliance.

Just like the devil and the demon will fight as soon as they meet, the hobgoblins and orcs are both monster races in the wilderness. The possibility of peaceful coexistence is very small. They are more likely to compete for survival resources, enslave each other or drive them to extinction.

It is precisely this characteristic that makes them suppress each other and slow down their development in the wilderness.

Usually, these orcs exploit others and make them pay tribute to them and pray for peace. Now the hobgoblins of Blood Gorge City are trying to squeeze benefits from them. They are indignant. If the other party has not proved that they are not good people with swords, they would have rushed up with their axes.

These orc tribes are secretly led by a half-beast troll named Ulkuna. This guy is like a stack of buffs, with many unique advantages on his body. He has a troll bloodline that gives him a strong regeneration ability. He is also huge, and his body size is comparable to those noble trolls, starting at six meters.

In terms of body size, he is more like an orc, with explosive muscles and a pair of exposed fangs, like a pair of small tusks. Even if he sits there, he has the ability to overlook the whole scene.

The mixed blood flowing in his body makes him not only have appeal among orcs, but also have ruling power among trolls. After the collapse of the troll kingdom, most of the scattered trolls on the giant plains were annexed by him, especially the noble trolls, no less than ten.

Although this guy is the product of the combination of two races that are not known for their wisdom, his own intelligence is very good.

When Blood Gorge City showed an unstoppable rise with the support of the Conqueror Army, he immediately moved his tribe to the Giant Run Mountains, where he held high the banner against Blood Gorge City and gathered those forces that were defeated or harmed by Blood Gorge City to strengthen himself.

After the Conqueror Army stirred up the storm on the Dragon Coast, he immediately made a deal with the Eight Cities Alliance and directly took a lot of benefits from them.

The reason is simple. The beast demon tribe he led will help the Eight Cities Alliance to contain Blood Gorge City on the Giant Plains and prevent them from continuing to grow here.

For this reason alone, the Eight Cities Alliance had no way to refuse.

Fully turning disadvantages into favorable situations for their own rise is not something that ordinary people can do.

"If you want war, I will give you war, Chief Urkruna. Believe it or not, as long as I give an order, your beast demon tribe will be buried in the dust of history in less than three days.

Don't think that we can't do anything to you just because you hide in the Giant Running Mountains. Are you sure that the cave you are hiding in is strong enough to withstand the large-scale explosion of the kobolds' vibrator bombs?"

Blood Claw knows that you should shoot the horse first and hit the head when shooting a person.

Now the resistance forces on the Giant Plains are led by Urkruna, so don't worry about other things, just keep an eye on him. As long as he nods and surrenders, the rest will be easy.

How do you know that our tribe is hiding in the cave?

The half-beast troll Urkruna swallowed this stupid question back into his stomach. The other party couldn't be unaware of the little tricks he had made in the Giant Plains and the Dragon Coast. He must have conducted reconnaissance on his tribe and even planted spies in his tribe.

With the large-scale development of the Conqueror's Road, the vibrator bombs of those inconspicuous little guys, the kobolds, are well known.

This thing is a sharp weapon for breaking rocks, especially in narrow caves. It has extraordinary power. Once it causes a large-scale landslide, even if the people inside are not crushed to death, they will be trapped alive.

From then on, those dark caves are no longer safe places.

"If you have the ability, try it. Will you send my tribe into history, or will I make you never come back?" He Ulkuna is not scared. If he bows his head and surrenders after a threat or a shout, he will no longer need to be the patriarch of the beast demon tribe. He will just be a slave to the earth elves in Blood Gorge City, leading horses and cattle.

"Calm down, the two chiefs. We are sitting here today to find an opportunity for peaceful development. Winter is coming. If we continue to fight, both sides will have a hard time. Why don't we each take a step back and maintain the current pattern, develop our own way, and not fight each other?"

"Chief Haru is right. If we continue to fight, it will not benefit all of us. On the contrary, the humans in the north are likely to take advantage of the situation. They have now formed an alliance and are organizing their own regular army on a large scale. Although they are fighting against the conqueror army, our Giant Plains, as their closest neighbor, will become the target of their expansion if we are not careful, especially with the convenience brought by the Conqueror's Road."

"I think the Conqueror's Road is the source of the disaster for our Giant Plains. The Giant Plains has been in our hands for thousands of years because there was no trade route belonging to humans passing through here before. Now that we have it, the wealth that originally belonged to the tribes of our Giant Plains is rapidly disappearing, and this place will gradually fall into the control of those self-proclaimed civilized races.

General Blood Claw, are you willing to be a servant or running dog of humans?

Now the Conqueror Army has left the Dragon Coast and is blocked by the human coalition forces. We only need to destroy this road so that they can't go south...ah...how dare you...kill people here...dog demons...why is there a devil here...ah..."

"General Blood Claw, you dare to arrange a killer here..."

"General Blood Claw, what do you mean?"

"This is a trap!"

"Explode."

"Boom!"

"Everyone, don't move. The ground here is buried with dog-headed vibrator bombs. There are enough bombs to blow you and me up. If any of you dare to act rashly, we will die together. I have prepared enough resurrection spells and materials. Are you sure you are ready?"

"Damn it, all the plane spells here are banned. The other party is plotting against us."

"Blood Claw, you are untrustworthy. We came here to believe in you, but you are plotting against us."

"Trust me? Hey, don't think I don't know. You have sent out the elite of your entire tribe, less than ten kilometers behind you. There is no trust between us at all. I have made it very clear at the meeting.

The Conqueror's Road is absolutely indestructible. Anyone who dares to destroy this road, or even thinks of starting this road, is an enemy of our entire Blood Gorge City. We will eradicate it at all costs, regardless of any person or force, and we will fight to the death.

He actually dared to provoke the relationship between me and the Conqueror here. Do you think he should die?

I don't want the population, territory and livestock of his tribe. You can divide them up among yourselves. "

Blood Claw used his actual actions to explain what it means to be decisive in killing.

The chief of the Gnoll tribe who proposed to destroy the Conqueror's Road had not waited for him to finish his words before the giant wolf that was dozing in front of Blood Claw suddenly stood up and appeared in front of him like a ghost. With a wolf howl, its size doubled, and its already terrifying size became even more terrifying, directly reaching the super-large peak.

With a body length of nearly ten meters and a height of more than four meters, it clawed at the chief of the Gnoll tribe frantically. Its claws, which were longer and sharper than ordinary swords, cut him into pieces in just a few strokes, and his two arms were removed on the spot.

Then it opened its mouth, which was flatter and larger than that of an ordinary giant wolf, and with a click, it twisted the head of the chief of the Gnoll tribe off abruptly, accompanied by a chewing sound, and a huge force Suction was generated from the giant wolf's mouth, sucking a bloody shadow out of the body of the chief of the gnoll tribe, and swallowing it into the stomach along with the head fragments.

Gnawing!

Soul gnawing!

The opponent was not an ordinary giant wolf mount at all.

It was a devil, a dog devil from the Shura Field.

This dog devil was not only incredibly large, but also a bit unbelievable in speed. Even those creatures known for their agility could not have such agility and speed. It was obviously blessed with powerful magic, and the body was surrounded by terrifying magic. This dog devil had an extraordinary body. Even if it did not have legendary life dice, it had at least 19, entering the ranks of high-level devils.

It was definitely a high-level assassin killer who came and went without a trace on the battlefield. Few people could withstand his crazy output by themselves. Once they fell into his hands, In the mouth, even the chance of resurrection is greatly reduced.

This dog demon is none other than the capable evil general who followed Gavin at the beginning.

He has been in the Giant Plains recently, serving as both Blood Claw's mount and his senior adviser. When necessary, he will also serve as his deterrent tool like now.

To deal with those monsters, the dog demon's trick of killing people on the spot, eating their souls, and preventing them from resurrecting is very effective.

After doing this, the dog demon shrank itself into a not very noticeable large size, while walking back to Blood Claw slowly, and continued to lie down with his eyes closed to rest, looking like a mount, harmless to humans and animals.

But no one dared to despise it as before.

Killing people at this kind of alliance meeting is easy to arouse public anger and cause group attacks.

But with Blood Claw's order, not far away The ground shook violently, and the scene of countless earth and rocks bursting and splashing directly stunned them, and they dared not act rashly.

What really made them afraid was not Blood Claw and his Blood Gorge City, but their own tribe.

Once they and their trusted elites suffered heavy casualties in the process, their ruling position in the tribe would be in jeopardy.

After all, they were different from Blood Gorge City. There was a more powerful conqueror behind them who would resurrect him. The way they maintained their rule was the high-pressure rule brought by their powerful military force.

The more powerful the tribe, the more serious this situation was.

When they came before, they had considered the trap, and sent the spellcasters in the tribe to conduct repeated detections to make sure that there was no powerful magic here, and they dared to attend the meeting with confidence. Many of them were sent out with their entire tribe.

Who would have thought that they would still fall into Blood Claw's trap. He actually arranged the entire venue on a pile of vibration bombs, and he and the elite earth elves he led were the bait on it. They were now like sitting on a volcano that could erupt at any time, and the button was in Blood Claw's hand.

Blood Claws typically hit a stick and gave a big date, directly throwing out the interests of this gnoll tribe, letting other tribes present to divide up, making those tribal leaders look at each other in bewilderment, as if they could see the greed in each other's eyes.

None of the people present were good people, they were all predatory by nature, they only made sure they would not become the target of predation, and they were full of interest in preying on others.