Such a tragic exchange was an extremely bloody and sorrowful battle for the human race. Even the Orcs, who had gained the upper hand, could not help but feel fear when they looked back at the battlefield after a night of fierce fighting.
The ground within dozens of miles had been dyed red, and countless corpses were piled up everywhere. In a few places where the battle had been especially intense, the corpses were piled up in layers, forming a terrifying mountain of corpses.
Most of these corpses belonged to humans, but even those that belonged to the Orcs were enough to terrify even the bravest Orc warrior.
At this point, no one could continue to fight. If they did not reorganize, the humans would not be able to withstand it, and the Orcs would also face the risk of losing their camp.
Thus, this bloody battle came to an end, and both sides retreated. The humans hurriedly retreated, completely abandoning the positions that they had painstakingly built, and retreated to the defense line of the Great Wall that had been built over many years. The Orcs cleaned up the battlefield to prevent the spread of plague.
Sui Xiong watched all this from the sky and sighed deeply.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured. The weather is still cold, and with my restrictions, there will be no outbreak of plague." The God of Plague, who was beside him, said, "And the Orcs have always been very good at dealing with corpses. They will not waste resources."
Sui Xiong was slightly stunned, but immediately understood what he meant.
The Orcs' method of dealing with corpses was very simple: the corpses of human officers in exquisite armor could be preserved, waiting for them to be redeemed with money. As for the corpses of the ordinary soldiers and Orcs, after their belongings were taken and sorted, they would be sent to be treated as "meat."
Regardless of whether they were humans or Orcs, once they died, they could only be considered meat. It was very costly to transport the corpses back to their hometowns, and the families of the ordinary soldiers could not afford it. Therefore, they only needed to sort out their belongings.
A large army needed a lot of supplies every day, and it was always good to have more meat to supplement their needs.
Large pots were set up, and the corpses, regardless of race, were thrown into the pots after they were processed, and finally stewed into meat soup.
The two sides that had once fought to the death finally merged into one, and became the motivation for the warriors to continue fighting.
Sui Xiong watched all this happen sadly, but did not stop it.
He had thought of stopping them, but after careful consideration, he didn't.
War was cruel, and survival was difficult. If the Beastmen wanted to win this war, they would have to use all means available to them. If Sui Xiong came forward to stop them from turning the corpses into food, it would undermine his neutral position.
In fact, the Orcs were not born to be cruel. Back then, after the battle of "Day of the Sun's Death", they did not use the corpses of the dead as food. At that time, it was probably because the war was already over …
"War, war … never changes …" He could not help but murmur a famous saying that he had heard somewhere before. "What a cruel war …"
At the same time, in the void where the two God Kingdoms collided, the various God Systems that had joined forces to fight against the humans had spread out like a net, doing their best to search for traces of the human gods.
The human gods had not fallen. This could be seen from the fact that their temples in the human world had not lost their holy light. But they must have been so badly damaged that they couldn't even support the clergies with divine spells.
If they did not get rid of them now, find them, and get rid of them, when they could catch their breath, everyone would be the unlucky ones.
Fortunately, the God Kingdoms of the human gods had been destroyed. Without the foundation of the God Kingdoms, it would not be so easy for them to catch their breath.
Some gods had already sent their own Oracles to fly towards the human world to launch attacks on the churches and temples of the human gods. But because of the influence of the enchantment of the Main Plane, the gods could not do much to the human world. The clergies of the human gods relied on the defense of the temples and were still able to withstand the attacks.
But everyone knew that if this went on, and the human gods did not appear, as long as the war dragged on for a little longer, their clergies and temples would not be able to hold on.
Similarly, since they had been enduring until now, when they appeared, it would be accompanied by an earth-shattering and violent attack!
The war was temporarily in a stalemate.
The ones who broke the stalemate were the agitated assault troops sent by the Orcs.
This time, it was not a small troop of thousands like during the civil war of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, but a large troop of tens of thousands. With the help of flying magical beasts, they bypassed the defense line of the Great Wall and directly rushed into the hinterland of the Kingdom of Light.
This group of Orc troops was not as brutal as the mobility troops led by Earl Hauss. Wherever they passed, they did not carry out a massacre. Instead, they completely destroyed all the production tools and food reserves of the various towns and villages. Then, they swaggered away, leaving behind only the refugees who had no food and clothing, panicking and uneasy in the cold late winter.
This approach was naturally decided after discussion by the Orc Empire's advisory group. They felt that blindly slaughtering would not bring much benefit other than wasting the physical strength of the soldiers. For a decisive battle between two races, slaughtering would not affect the morale of the other party. It would only make the other party angrier, and it was meaningless.
On the contrary, if only the production tools and food were destroyed, then the humans would face a huge problem — those refugees who had lost their food, lost their tools, and even had their houses destroyed, should they save them? Or should they not? If they wanted to save them, how should they do it?
There was no doubt that this would greatly restrain the military strength of the human side, and it would also cause them to consume a lot of resources.
For the Orcs, such an outcome was much more useful than a mere massacre.
"The living will always be more useful than the dead. It only depends on how you use them." The previous Orc Emperor, Junero Tiger, had once said so. Now, the Orcs had learned and applied his teachings, and it had achieved very good results.
As for Emperor Junero himself, he was now under the command of the Orc Gods. As a warrior, he was searching for clues of the human gods in that void.
However, he had also been paying attention to the situation of the battle in the human world. The Orc Gods valued his opinion very much, and had arranged for a few Oracles who were not very strong but had very fast feet to act as liaisons for him, so that he could be informed of the situation of the battle in the human world in time.
When he learned that the Orcs had sent out harassing troops to destroy the production and resources of the humans with all their might, but they did not slaughter the civilians, leaving only countless refugees behind, he could not help but laugh.
"Well done!" he said. "Keep doing it, and we will recover from our disadvantage bit by bit, and finally win!"
"Your Majesty, can we really win?" asked the young man who had become an Oracle not too long ago.
"Of course!" Junero laughed confidently. "This time, the humans actually want to be enemies with all the races. They are courting death!"
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