It was still dark in the village of Berg in the Kingdom of Karen. More than 2,000 kilometers to the northwest, across the huge mountain range that separated the Kingdom of Karen, the Orc chief Sauron suddenly woke up from his dream.
His face was covered in cold sweat as he sat up. His right hand subconsciously reached to the side and grabbed the heavy chain hammer. Only then did he calm down.
However, the images and information in his dream stunned Sauron for a long time. He stared blankly at the religious painting on the wall in front of him for a long time. Finally, he took a deep breath and stood up.
This was the territory of the Kingdom of Casat in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Karen. At this time, the castle where Sauron was located originally belonged to Earl Lynch. However, the bodies of the Earl's family, which consisted of three generations, were hung outside the city wall, intimidating the surviving citizens in the outer city.
This was the northern core of the Kingdom of Casat, the "Rus Fortress," which was also the city that Roddy had read in the Karen Times that the Orcs had conquered in half a day.
According to the Orcs' style, after conquering a human town, the only way to do it was to rob all the food and supplies, kill all the people, and then burn everything down.
They were used to a nomadic life without a fixed residence. In the human world, where everyone wanted to kill them, finding a fixed residence was like setting up a target, waiting to be hit by others.
But now, Sauron made the remaining 2,000 or so Orcs set up camp here, and even made it seem like they were going to use this place as their base.
He did not carry out a massacre or a great purge. The people who died in the "Rus Fortress" were all nobles of the ruling class. Most of the ordinary people survived, but Sauron did not show mercy and let them continue their business activities. Instead, he directly beheaded those who disobeyed him and controlled and enslaved the rest. All of them were sent to dig deep moats outside the city, reinforce the city walls, and work as laborers to help the stockpile of supplies and food.
The reason was that Sauron realized that if he continued to hide in the mountains with his people, they would suffer unimaginable losses when winter came.
The military strength of the eastern countries was far weaker than that of the Kingdom of Karen. After a few tentative attacks, he completely changed his strategy and chose to take the initiative.
"Chief!"
Seeing Zoro walk out of the bedroom, the guard at the door stood up straight and shouted in a rumbling voice.
Sauron nodded and continued to walk out. When he arrived at the dining hall on the first floor, the terrified human maid had already placed roast chicken, milk, and large plates of bread on the table.
In addition to the Beastman guards, seven or eight meters away from the table, there was a middle-aged human with a flattering expression bowing and greeting him. Sauron was used to this, so he did not say anything and went straight to the table. He sat on the wide chair and began to eat alone. After eating half of the roast chicken, he looked up and asked the middle-aged man, who was bowing so hard that his legs were trembling, "Have you investigated the information?"
"Yes! Lord Chief, we have verified many things and can confirm that the Magic Tower in Florence City has what you said … "
When he answered the question, he bowed so much that his head almost touched the ground.
This was also the norm for the humans living in the city. They either became slaves who trembled in fear like maids, or they used their talents to serve the Orcs.
Originally, most people were unwilling to bow down to the smelly Orcs. Sauron's countermeasure was very simple: those who resisted the most would be beheaded, and those who did not speak would be ignored for the time being. He did not simply rely on slaughter to intimidate the remaining group of people. Instead, he defended the city and swept away the three batches of reinforcements. After that, the people in the city basically gave up their original persistence …
The people with backbone had been killed, and the remaining people obviously could not accept serving the Orcs in order to survive.
At this time, Sauron was very benevolent. For the first human who was willing to stand up and serve him, such as the low-grade mage in front of him, he was not stingy with rewards. He even let the low-grade mage choose any woman he wanted to enjoy and gave him various privileges.
In the end, these guys no longer had any psychological barriers to doing things. Every day, they worked hard for Sauron, and at night, they would go back and have sex with women that they could not reach before, or use their privileges to satisfy the evil fetishes in their hearts.
By now, Sauron's rule in the city had basically stabilized. Even though the number of Orcs was not large, he had also gained control of the city and nearby villagers because he had enough humans under his control.
However, all of this was based on the fact that the Orcs had super combat power.
In the past, the Orcs were much stronger than humans in terms of strength, but generally speaking, there was a limit to their strength. Once they were used in battle, the difference could easily be made up for by equipment and military literacy.
But now, the Orcs had undergone great changes.
Since the battlefield in the Kingdom of Karen was affected by the fluctuation before the closing of the Devil's Gate, the strength of Sauron and the Orcs in his tribe had greatly improved. The strength of the ordinary Orcs had greatly increased. Those who were originally a little thin and weak had become muscular after having enough food. This degree of strength was obviously beyond common sense. After all, the Orcs had no time to exercise on the way to escape, and they did not often fight. According to the normal regulation function of the body, long-term marching would instead make their muscles softer and their bodies thinner.
But after passing through the mountains to the Eastern Kingdom, the Orc soldiers who had been following Sauron had almost inflated like balloons, and even their average height had increased by more than ten centimeters.
Sauron himself was the strongest "witch doctor" in the tribe. Not only did he become the strongest among them, but his witchcraft had also improved by leaps and bounds. The Orc warriors and Wolf Riders who had been blessed by his witchcraft could not be compared to before in terms of attack power and combat power.
Currently, the lowest part of the wall of the "Le Se Fortress", where Sauron was located, was five meters high. But in front of the Orc warriors who had been blessed by witchcraft, the wall was like a hurdle. They could climb over it without any hindrance.
When they were attacking before, they did not even use the siege weapons. It was just a simple sneak attack by two small teams that had taken control of the wall!
This change made Sauron full of confidence, and it was the main reason why he dared to defend the city.
However, after breakfast, the few tribal subordinates who came to participate in the "military and political discussion" were obviously not as calm as Sauron —
"Chief, if we do not attack now, I am afraid that the fourth batch of humans will be assembled and attack!"
"Why don't we take the initiative to attack now? Those guys will not be able to withstand a single blow! "
The few warlords who spoke were tall, each of them more than two meters tall, and their shoulders were as wide as a wall. When they spoke excitedly, they would hit the table with their fists, resulting in many cracks on the wooden table in front of them.
Sauron did not argue with them. He just waved his hand, and the four warlords collectively quieted down.
Obviously, Sauron's status and prestige were extremely high. None of the four beast-like warlords dared to be presumptuous in front of him.
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