"It was last night," Bo Sidur said, "Botu himself came to say so."
Xiao Xun asked curiously, "Where is he now?"
"At the door."
Xiao Xun went to the door and found Botu really there.
"General Botu, what made you think of looking for me?"
Botu smiled thinly, though his bear-like face wasn't particularly handsome when smiling, "I heard that Prince Svein won a great victory and came specifically to congratulate you."
"Not at all, not at all. To be honest, this is all thanks to everyone's support. If you had let the Scourge Army in, I would have been attacked from both sides, and who knows how miserable my fate would have been."
Facing Xiao Xun's politeness, Botu didn't respond, either agreeing with Xiao Xun or not understanding him.
Xiao Xun didn't dwell on it. He was more concerned about the King of Arrogance. After a brief pleasantry, he changed the subject, "I heard from Bo Sidur that you know the King of Arrogance's background?"
Botu nodded, "Not entirely clear, really! Actually, it was an old shaman of our orc tribe who said it. I thought it might help you defeat him, so I sent someone to call this old sorcerer here."
With that, he signaled to the personal guards behind him, and the guards took two people out.
In a short while, two orc soldiers carried a simple sedan chair in. Sitting cross-legged on it was an orc clad in animal skins. His fangs were yellowed, and his face was full of wrinkles and age spots, all speaking of his vicissitudes.
Botu rose and introduced, "This is our orc tribe's renowned Great Shaman, the Seer's Watch."
Xiao Xun nodded, "I heard you know the King of Arrogance's background?"
The Great Shaman did not answer directly but asked Botu and his subordinates to leave. Botu bowed respectfully, "Then I will wait for you outside." With that, he left with his subordinates.
Fearing that the old man would not remember, Xiao Xun was about to ask again when the Great Shaman suddenly interjected, "Young man, let me tell you a story!"
Xiao Xun was startled and glanced at Bo Sidur next to him. He saw that she also frowned, her eyes filled with confusion, clearly not knowing what this old fellow was thinking.
However, since he needed his help at this moment, Xiao Xun could only sigh inwardly, suppressing his impatient anxiety, and said patiently, "Please tell me!"
"Our orc tribe is located north of Atlantis. It has never been as prosperous as Saint Noahs, but it has its own unique origins..."
He slowly closed his eyes, "Now everyone in the world knows that our orc tribe has five races: the werewolf, the bear-man, the bull-man, the troll, and the mountain people. These five races coexist and live on this land. But in fact, a long, long time ago, there was another race called the 'Chimera'."
Xiao Xun's expression changed. He seemed to have heard this name, but he didn't know the specifics.
The Great Shaman's back cast a slightly distorted shadow on the ground, reflected by the blazing flames used for warmth beside him. Along with his voice, the crackling sound of burning wood in the fire was also mixed in.
"According to tribal legends, in ancient times, the orcs managed the borderlands of the orc tribe and were powerful. Talented individuals with profound shamanistic powers emerged from generation to generation, especially the Wuda Gou, who served Tengger in each generation, whose shamanistic magic was the most powerful."
Xiao Xun and Bo Sidur both looked up slightly. They were both intelligent people and knew that the crucial part of what the Great Shaman was saying was about to come out.
"However, in the third year of the reign of the eleventh generation Wuda Gou of the ancient half-orcs, a mutation suddenly occurred in the great mountains of the orc borderlands." The Great Shaman's voice was still hoarse, but his tone had quietly risen, as if his inner excitement was slowly revealing itself.
"In the Heavenly God Mountain of the orc tribe, a monster calling itself the 'King of Arrogance' appeared. No one knew the monster's origin; it seemed to have appeared out of thin air."
"At first, no one noticed the monster's existence, but gradually, the ancestors of the half-orcs sensed the abnormality. Although Heavenly God Mountain was dangerous, it was lush with forests and rich in animals. Skilled hunters among the half-orcs could always enter to hunt. But from that time on, poisonous miasma suddenly appeared in Heavenly God Mountain. Inhaling a mouthful would cause the whole body to rot and die. Even more bizarrely, the normally normal wild beasts also underwent strange changes. They became extremely ferocious, killing and devouring any person they saw, leaving people terrified, and the half-orcs were in a state of panic."
Xiao Xun's mind conjured up four words: biological crisis.
The Great Shaman paused for a moment, as if also immersed in the events of that ancient history. After a while, he slowly continued, "At that time, Wuda Gou convened the tribe's shamans and leaders to discuss. Finally, a team of elite warriors led by three shamans was dispatched to investigate Heavenly God Mountain."
"But ten days after this team entered the mountain, only the shaman with the highest shamanistic power among the leaders escaped. He was covered in festering wounds, and despite Wuda Gou's full efforts to save him, it was ineffective. In the end, he only uttered the words 'beast demon' before dying!"
"Beast demon..."
Xiao Xun and Bo Sidur both slowly repeated the name in their minds.
"From this point on, the ancestors of the half-orcs finally knew that a monster had appeared in Heavenly God Mountain. Later, after much investigation and at the cost of many warriors' lives, they gradually learned that this monster had suddenly appeared in Heavenly God Mountain with incredible and bizarre divine abilities. Under his demonic magic, the once lush mountain range turned into barren mountains, the clear rivers were filled with poison, and poisonous miasma was everywhere. The various animals in the mountains were also transformed into monsters by his demonic magic."
His voice seemed to carry a touch more desolation, "After knowing about the beast demon, the half-orcs never had a peaceful day. As time went on, the various monsters under the beast demon actually began to gradually emerge from Heavenly God Mountain. Thus, reports of tribesmen being killed spread everywhere, and the number of victims grew. It reached a point of widespread panic, and eventually, ordinary half-orc civilians even began to abandon their homes and migrate elsewhere at all costs. If this continued, the entire orc tribe would be destroyed."
"Wuda Gou of that generation originally wanted to gather more information about this monster before discussing how to eliminate it. But at that time, the people of the half-orcs were enraged, and the situation had reached its most critical moment. She finally decided to summon all the shamans and warriors of the half-orcs to go and conquer this peerless demon and fight to the death to save the half-orcs."
"Unexpectedly, on the night Wuda Gou made this decision, the beast demon led his countless demon subordinates and suddenly broke out from Heavenly God Mountain, directly attacking the place where the ancient half-orc altar was located. The half-orc altar was the place where the half-orc people sacrificed to Tengger, and it had always been the lifeline of the tribe, sacred and inviolable. That night, it can be said that all the half-orcs, regardless of whether they were men, women, or even older children, rushed to the battlefield and fought fiercely against those ferocious demons!"