Who stole nature? Me? From the Xia clan of the forest...
The golden leopard crouched beside the fallen Mo Rong, its tone puzzled, "Although I sensed during the migration that you weren't suited to be a warrior, I didn't expect you to be even weaker than I thought."
Seeing that the competition in the training field had ended, Heitu carried water and a clean cloth and went forward to check on Mo Rong's injuries.
She patiently cleaned Mo Rong's wound, her expressionless face revealing no emotion. Only when Mo Rong grimaced and whispered in pain did her expression subtly change, and she cleaned Mo Rong's wound even more gently.
“Captain. Mo Rong said he wants to be a soldier. Please teach him again.” She turned to look into Yan Duoyu’s eyes and pleaded once more.
At the request of her most prized disciple, the golden leopard conceded defeat. She flicked her tail and lightly patted Mo Rong's leg, "Go and rest over there. Black Earth, you come and spar with me, show him the fighting style of the lemming orcs."
She said, turning to stare at the half-adult Mo Rong, her heart heavy with melancholy. This half-adult was difficult to train. When Hei Tu was just half-adult, she could go hunting with her. Mo Rong, well, let's not talk about Mo Rong's situation.
"I will try my best!" Mo Rong said with a firm gaze and full of energy, then gasped in pain.
He knew his combat skills were poor; Kurotsuchi had privately taught him many times, but he still hadn't learned. Oh no, he felt like he could only barely pass his combat training. But if he couldn't get an excellent score, he probably wouldn't even qualify to be a warrior seed.
He felt down for a while, then shook off those emotions, gave himself a pep talk, and, despite his wounds, sat down to sit down and carefully studied the battle scene before him.
The flat, boundless grasslands are a good battlefield for orcs like the leopard orcs, who are skilled at running and can use their beast forms to hunt wild animals. However, orcs like the lemming orcs and rock squirrel orcs are better at using trees and terrain to hunt animals, and the grasslands would weaken their fighting ability.
With a wooden shield strapped to one arm and a wooden sword in the other, Heitu demonstrated to Mo Rong that absolute strength could overcome the disadvantages brought by the environment.
"Very good, Kurotsuchi. Your reactions are even faster than a few days ago," Iwato said happily, before launching an even more ferocious attack.
Kurotsuchi caught her movements, dodged the attack, and countered, replying, "Because I want to get stronger, I train extra every day."
She didn't miss a single day of training, whether it was extra training for Mo Rong or extra training for herself.
After those two sentences, the training ground was once again filled only with the sounds of battle. They were all orcs who were accustomed to remaining silent during combat, focusing their attention solely on their opponents.
After the drill, Heitu pulled Mo Rong to the treatment room to apply medicine.
The two little ones entered the treatment room and bumped into Jiang Yunlan, who had come there.
Upon seeing Lan's figure, the dejected Mo Rong instantly perked up, staring into Lan's eyes as she looked over, and asked, "Lan, did you eat well today?"
He's practically an adult now that he's in his prime, and the cubs and the two canteens are all being looked after by Gray Feather. It's not clear if Lan is still eating on time.
Jiang Yunlan felt inexplicably guilty for a moment, but then she remembered that she had eaten on time today, and immediately straightened up. "Yes, I ate well today. I came here to deliver the newly made ointment, and I will go to lunch on time at noon. Did you go to training today too? You came here with all your injuries again."
As she spoke, she picked out the appropriate medicine and handed it to Mo Rong.
Reaching out to take the medicine from Lan, Mo Rong lowered her head, unable to hold back her sadness in front of Lan, revealing the sorrow she had been suppressing all along.
"Would it be better if I didn't become a soldier? I don't think I'm suited for it." He blinked, trying to hold back his tears. He had grown up; he was no longer a cub. He had to be strong.
Hei Tu looked at him, hesitated, and then imitated Lan's actions, raising his hand to rub his head.
He wasn't good at fighting, and it would be better if he didn't become a warrior. But he said he wanted to be a warrior.
Back when Black Soil hadn't met Lan, and hadn't been taken to the mountain cave by Maple Red, she heard Mo Rong, who was only one snow season younger than her, tell her that the chieftain wanted the two of them to go out with the other orcs to find food.
He said that clans that send their cubs to become warriors are too terrible, and he doesn't want to stay in such clans; he wants to leave.
He said he wanted to take her with him to find other clans.
Black Soil agreed.
At that time, she couldn't recognize food very well, nor did she know how to find water. During the several sunsets she wandered in the forest, it was Mo Rong who found the food and water, and it was also Mo Rong who discovered the bamboo tube.
During that time, she felt that Mo Rong was the most powerful lemming beastman, knowing so much. It didn't matter that Mo Rong wasn't good at fighting or didn't like fighting; she was actually very good at dealing with wild beasts, and she could take Mo Rong away from the beasts in the forest. Once she became a warrior, she could protect Mo Rong, who couldn't be a warrior.
But not long ago, Mo Rong, who disliked fighting, came to ask her for help, saying that she wanted to learn the fighting skills that would enable her to become a warrior.
She simply couldn't refuse Mo Rong, who had been secretly leading her to find food after her mother's death, enabling her to survive from that clan. Even though she thought it would have been better for Mo Rong not to become a warrior.
“It’s okay if it’s not suitable, I’ll help you.” She made a serious promise to Mo Rong, her face still expressionless.
Upon hearing this, Mo Rong awkwardly turned his face away, refusing to look at her. He was upset because even though she had asked Yan Duoyu to teach him, he still couldn't learn.
He'll be an adult in just two snow seasons. Why can't he be as powerful as Black Soil? I wish I could become a beastman as powerful as Black Soil.
“I know some orcs must have told you that you’re not suited to be a warrior. I know you’re confused, but I want to ask you a question: what made you want to become a warrior in the first place?” Jiang Yunlan asked Mo Rong gently.
She didn't know whether she should support Mo Rong in continuing on the path of a warrior. Mo Rong seemed eager to become a warrior, but she knew that Mo Rong actually disliked fighting.
Mo Rong was bewildered upon hearing the question. Lan was the first orc to ask him for a reason. He frowned and tried hard to recall why he felt he should do this, even though he was clearly not good at fighting and did not like fighting.
"If I weren't a soldier, what should I do? I don't know what else I could do besides being a soldier." He couldn't think of anything.
After leaving his original lemming orc clan, he only had one fellow clansman, Black Soil, by his side. Black Soil was a warrior, and as a fellow lemming orc, he should indeed become a warrior.
Jiang Yunlan shook her head and told him, "You still have two more snow seasons before you come of age. You have time to think. The teachers at the academy have talked to me about you. They say you learn everything very quickly, except for combat. I'm not telling you to give up on becoming a warrior, but rather that you have countless possibilities."
"Choose what you love, become who you want to be. You never have only one path to choose from."
Looking at the bewildered Mo Rong, she sighed and said to him, "Go to Hui Mi's place during this time and help her distribute tasks. You need to understand that even if you don't become a soldier, Xia has many other things for you to choose from."
In the past, orcs could only become warriors because they had no other choice. Now it's different. Xia will soon be able to support all the orcs by farming and raising animals. In the future, Xia will only need a portion of the orcs to serve as warriors to protect the clan.
They can choose other paths now.
You can leave the battlefield like Yan Shaofeng and become a mushroom grower, or choose to become the architect you've always wanted to be like Tara.
After saying goodbye to the two semi-adult lemming beastmen, Jiang Yunlan returned to the central building and saw Maple Syrup walking towards her.
"Lan, the items for the unicorn people are ready, as are their travel bags. When would you like to lead your people out?" Maple Sugar asked, handing over a list she had prepared.
Jiang Yunlan took the list, glanced through it, put the list away, and said with a slight smile, "We're all ready. Let's set off tomorrow."
"诱辱辱辘."
Xia's team drove across the grasslands toward the unicorn people's habitat.
The destination they were heading to was quite far, and the group included orcs such as Yan Duoyu, Feng Hong, Hei Tu, and Hati. Lupu, Hui Xiaoxi, and Yan Lin stayed behind at the clan.
Jiang Yunlan held up a hand-drawn map and gave directions to the orc driving ahead. It was her first time in a new region, and she only had a map she'd heard about to refer to; she might take some wrong turns. She didn't mind spending a little more time finding the right way.
New places always bring new experiences, making her somewhat excited about what she would encounter on this trip.
...
Yes, I'm looking forward to encountering new orc clans, but this isn't the kind of encounter I want.
Jiang Yunlan looked at the beastmen who were inexplicably shouting at her to fight, feeling a little speechless. The strange beastmen's incoherent chatter gave her a headache.
It's a new language, and I don't understand it.
"Yan Duoyu, Hati, calm them down."
The chattering stopped. Jiang Yunlan rubbed her temples and asked the beastmen in the group, "Can you understand this language?"
Having wandered the continent for a long time, Hati perked up his ears and lazily said, "I can. I know many orc languages from different regions."
Because many clans had to leave their original habitats due to beast tides and behemoths, his clan encountered many orcs from different regions during their wanderings. Sometimes, his clan would travel with them for a while, and occasionally they would form alliances and cooperate, thus learning the languages of many regions.
"That's great, you've been a huge help. Hati, could you ask them why they charged at me in their beast forms? I don't think I did anything to them, did I?" Jiang Yunlan asked, puzzled.
This clan is really baffling. She just arrived here; there's no way she'd made an enemy of any clan.
"Do you even need to ask? They're all going to kill you, might as well just kill them all." Hati asked, puzzled. If he encountered any unfamiliar orcs trying to kill him, none of them would survive.
Jiang Yunlan sighed, "Let's ask first, just in case there's a misunderstanding. This level of killing intent is very abnormal; there's definitely something I don't know about it."
Unable to resist her, the wolf-orc grabbed one of the orcs and asked him a question.
“They say you’re a beastman who steals nature, you deserve to die… Huh?” Hati frowned, staring at the beastman in his hand with the eyes of someone looking at a dead man. “Why don’t we just kill all these beastmen?”
Jiang Yunlan also expressed her doubt: "Huh? He's saying who stole nature, me?"
How could she not remember that she had stolen nature? The only nature around her had always been ice crystals.
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