The Lord of Ashes

After walking out of the teleportation array, the scene that appeared in front of Thain's eyes was a white-grey, endless wasteland.

The Danube Wasteland is the largest wasteland area in the orc world.

There are hundreds of orc kingdoms here, and they believe in the same or different beast gods.

In terms of richness, the Danube Wasteland is far inferior to the rich Karimda Plain.

But this place is the most faithful portrayal of the environment and customs of the orc world.

Because more than 70% of the barren orc world is a resource-poor area similar to the Danube Wasteland.

Fertile areas like the Karimdor Plains account for less than 30% of the orc world.

Thain came to the orc world to experience the most realistic orc world.

As a well-known large-scale plane, the world of orcs has experienced food crises year after year. Every year, hundreds of millions of orcs starve to death in this world, which is simply bizarre.

In addition, the orc world is also the largest export plane of slave creatures in the Wizards Alliance.

Beautiful orc girls are popular in all major leagues, while strong orc warriors are the best vassals and thugs.

This is a civilizational trend of thought, a large-scale plane that is still in a relatively primitive and ignorant stage.

But it is undeniable that the power of the orc world is beyond doubt.

After walking out of the teleportation array, in front of Thane and others, in addition to a few garrisoned knights at the Mane Knight Hall, there were also dozens of mighty orc warriors.

The average physique of these orc warriors is two or three times greater than that of human knights in the wizarding world.

Of course, this refers to the initial body shape, and does not include the forms of the second-level knights after they activate their bloodline transformation.

The Manai Knights Hall seems to be doing well in the orc world. The dozens of orc warriors who assist in stationing around the teleportation array are all well-known bear-men in the orc plane.

The world of orcs is severely lacking in iron, not to mention magical equipment inscribed with elemental power.

But these dozens of bear-men were all wearing heavy copper armor, and the weapon they carried was a giant wheel axe, which faintly exuded elemental power.

The weapons and armor of these orc warriors look a little bit like the magical alchemy equipment of the wizarding world.

But the sophistication and luxury of their weapons are far inferior to those of the wizarding world knights stationed around the teleportation array.

Although, the weapons and equipment of these dozens of bearmen, no matter which country they are placed in the orc world, are enough to arouse the jealousy of other orcs.

After Thane and others appeared, several knights from the Wizarding World took the initiative to greet them, while the bear warriors continued to stick to their posts like guards.

The strategy of making good friends with many beast gods in the orc world has made the Manai Knights Hall very popular in this large plane.

The dozens of bear-men in front of them are nothing. In the several plane wars organized by the Mane Knights Hall, they even had a pure orc foreign aid army with more than 500,000 people.

And the foreign aid corps were all fighting orcs, such as rhino men, bear men, lion men, tiger men, leopard men, elephant men, etc.

The fighting power is terrifying!

Even the same number of demon legions may not be able to stop the frontal charge of these powerful orc legions.

The knights stationed at the Mane Knights Hall should have received the news in advance, so they were very respectful to the arrival of Thain and others.

They even prepared a large number of Orc World gold coins in advance and handed them over to Thain and others for redemption. They wished Thain and others a happy time in the Orc World.

The currency exchange ratio in the orc world has dropped dramatically compared to magic coins.

Moreover, the management of the orc world seems to be relatively chaotic, and the currency values ​​of different orc countries are not unified.

If it were a large world like Faerûn, Thane could still understand it. After all, the camps there were chaotic and many gods were hostile.

But the orc world should be monolithic.

The most powerful god in the orc world is Campas, who is also known as the "God of Orcs" and "God of War". This is a powerful dominating creature and the only will of the orc world.

The chaotic pattern of the orc world also shows that the orc god is indeed not good at managing planes.

In comparison, Thane had heard from his mentor Lu Lianman that the elf world was governed in an orderly and prosperous manner by the supreme elf god.

They are also the masters of the alliance, which also makes the God of Elves have a higher voice than the God of Orcs.

Secular gold coins can only be used by the lower-level civilians in the orc world, so Thain doesn't exchange much for them, just enough is enough.

As for powerful orc warriors or shamans above level one, they also accept the magic coin system.

And according to the introductions of the garrisoned knights at the Mane Knight Hall, the general value of magic coins in the orc world is similar to that of the average alliance medium-sized plane.

This also intuitively reflects the poor economy of the orc world and the hard passability of magic coins.

After saying goodbye to several garrison knights, Thane embarked on a journey to explore the orc world.

…

The Orc Kingdom of Cameroon is a small kingdom located in the southern corner of the Danube Wilderness, with a population of only about three million.

In Thane's impression, the orcs he had seen before were all extremely powerful and majestic.

But after actually coming to the world of orcs and observing the underlying features of this world, I found that this was not the case.

There are bottom creatures in any world, and there will be no shortage of exploited people in any ecological circle.

The world of orcs indeed has powerful orc troops that are extremely strong and explosive.

But the more numerous people in this world are still the weak orc races.

How could all the people in one plane be soldiers?

For example, in the orc kingdom of Cameroon, although their king is said to be a bear-man of the Bel tribe, the races that account for the largest proportion in this orc kingdom are the rat-men of the Maos tribe and the rabbit-men of the Puleboai tribe. and the Mink people of the Mink tribe.

The current situation of the Cameroon Orc Kingdom actually reflects the true situation of the entire Orc world.

According to the latest census conducted in the orc world more than 20,000 years ago, among the many orc races in the orc world, the orc race that ranks first is the Ratman of the Maus tribe.

Moreover, the rat people have occupied the top spot in this ranking list and have been in the orc world for many thousands of years.

The average height of rat people is less than half a meter.

Even if an ordinary strong man from the wizarding world comes over, he can kill several of them with one kick.

Their thin bodies make it difficult for many weak orc races, including the rat men, to exert their powerful combat power like other powerful orc races.

To make matters worse, these orc races, who are single and weak, are competing with each other to survive.

Taking the rat people as an example, it is completely normal for a child to have several, or even a dozen, babies.

With the fertility of rat people, they can give birth four to six times a year.

The most direct response to exaggerated fertility is large-scale famines caused by food shortages.

The orc world has been suffering from famine for a long time. In fact, those who really suffer from poverty are not the powerful orc races, but these weak orcs similar to the rat men.

In Thane's sight, there were dozens of pot-bellied ratmen in front of him at this moment, but they were still working hard on the barren land.

Those dozens of ratmen were not pregnant, they were actually adult males.

The reason their bellies are so bloated...is because they drank too much water.

In the Cameroon Orc Kingdom, there is a river that surrounds one-third of their territory.

Therefore, this small kingdom of orcs is not actually short of water, they are only short of food.