It was a rainy night, and Batulu was kneeling on the ground in pain.
His father's voice and smile appeared in his mind. It was so real and so kind.
He didn't know any better, so he asked his father for a toy that a human child was holding. His father had no choice but to use his animal fur to exchange for it.
Batulu's father told him to stay where he was and wait for him. He told him not to wander off.
After a long time, his father still didn't come back. Batulu was scared, but he saw everyone walking towards the square.
The humans seemed to be talking about something, so Batulu followed them curiously.
There, Batulu saw his father and the toy that had fallen on the ground.
Batulu's father was tied up by a rope and hung on the gallows. Batulu saw his father's tears flowing uncontrollably.
He wanted to rush over, but an old orc hugged him from behind.
No matter how Batulu struggled, the old beastman held him in a death grip.
"Child, if you rush over now, you'll die in vain. Remember these people's faces. They killed that orc, "the old orc said to Batulu.
Batulu's hand was tightly holding the toy that he had picked up from the ground. It was the toy that his father had exchanged his life for.
"This is the consequence of challenging the law. This orc will be hanged for theft." His Lordship personally supervised the execution and spoke loudly to the humans and orcs who were watching the execution.
Then, the human soldiers pulled down the lever that opened the wooden plank under Batulu's father's feet. Batulu could only watch helplessly as his father died tragically in front of him. However, there was nothing he could do. Batulu finally understood how weak he was. Being weak meant being at the mercy of others.
From then on, the old orc took Batulu in. Many years had passed since his father's death. One day, Batulu, as the Lord's guard, accidentally learned the truth of that day.
It turned out that one of the Lord's friends told him that an orc had a valuable wolf tooth. The two of them plotted together to frame that orc to get his tooth.
This orc was Batulu's father. For Batulu's sake, he had exchanged animal fur with a human for a toy. As a result, the greedy merchant had his eyes on his Frost Wolf Fangs.
Knowing the truth, Batulu no longer felt humiliated by the fact that his father was a thief. However, the rage in his heart made him want to kill the lord at all times. But he couldn't do it because he was in love with the lord's daughter.
It was on that rainy night that Baturu saw the lord's daughter and the duke's son eating the forbidden fruit in the back garden. At that moment, Batulu's heart was as cold as iron.
He rushed into the Lord's bedroom with his Crescent Blade Axe and chopped off the Lord's head.
Fawns was the first to rush in. When he saw Batulu holding the head of the Lord, he told Batulu to retreat first.
Fawns and Batulu had grown up together. Fawns often saw Batulu wake up in cold sweat from nightmares in the middle of the night.
At this moment, he could understand Batulu's actions.
And at this time, a servant passing by discovered that the Feudal Lord was dead. He panicked and shouted for help.
The rest of the guards rushed in. They saw Fawns holding the Feudal Lord's head. A group of people rushed at Fawns, but they weren't his match.
A few days later, the news of the Feudal Lord's death shook the entire Crescent Blade Fortress. What was even more shocking was that the one who killed the Feudal Lord was his personal guard, Fawns.
And so, Fawns became a wanted criminal.
Under Fawns' cover, Batulu returned to the orc's homeland, Sargeru. There, he met his long-lost brother, Balk.
Later, the Feudal Lord's son succeeded him and became the current Feudal Lord. The Feudal Lord's daughter married the duke's son, further strengthening the Crescent Blade Fortress.
The desperate Fawns came to the Mercenary Association and established the Iron Wolf Mercenary Group. The reason it was called the Iron Wolf Mercenary Group was because when they were young, Batulu had taken Fawns to the Frost Wolf Tribe to look for giant wolf companions. It was also on that day that Batulu said that orcs would never saddle their giant wolf companions, because it was an insult to their companions.
In a later mission, Fawns' giant wolf companion died in battle. In order to commemorate his old friend, he named his mercenary group Iron Wolf.
Every time Fawns thought back to the past, his expression would be so serious. Perhaps it was better to forget some painful memories.
In the end, we followed the tracks and found the ogre's residence with great difficulty. It was a broken cave.
Outside the cave was a quagmire. What surprised us was that the Cyclops child we were looking for was even bigger than the ogres.
These ogres were playing with the Cyclops child in the quagmire. They didn't seem to have any intention of eating the Cyclops.
We let out a sigh of relief. Just as we wanted to take the Cyclops child away, the ogres weren't happy.
The ogres were not happy. They swung their big clubs at us.
We didn't hold back and beat the ogres into submission. They knelt and begged for mercy.
Just like that, we brought the Cyclops child back to his home.
When Carmon saw that his child had returned safe and sound, he danced with joy. In order to express his gratitude, he was willing to join us. As long as there was a need, the Cyclops would fight for the rise of the Beastmen.
After bidding farewell to Carmon and the others, we returned to Zagru.
We received news that the next black tide was about to arrive. We had to hurry and contact the Tigermen and Harpies.
However, these two tribes were currently at war. It was said that they were dueling for territory.
Each side would send a warrior from their tribe for a fair one-on-one duel. The winner would have the final say.
Burke told us that as long as we sent a warrior to defeat them, they would naturally join us.
As a result, the question of who to send became a problem that troubled everyone.
Right now, in order to resist the coming black tide, most of the troops couldn't go. Even if they did, it would be useless.
Thus, only the Demon Hunting Blade and the Iron Wolf Mercenary Group were suitable.
At this time, Makaros, who had been silent in the corner, raised his head and said that he wanted to try.
Fawns was shocked, but he still agreed to let a child like Makaros go.
We didn't understand, but we trusted Fawns.
Fawns told us that Makaros wasn't a simple child. He had another name, Dragon Chaser.
He also told us that when the time came, we would naturally know Makaros' strength.
As a result, our group arrived at the border between the Tigermen and Harpies.
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