Warlord: King of All Clans

Leo quickly counted on his fingers for the Duke of the North to hear, "No, I already have a father-in-law named Uliyan, the future Banner Lord, and a foster father named Rigolav, the current Banner Lord. If I recognize you as my foster father, is there any place left for Master Bobak?"

The Grand Duke of the North was actually stumped by his question and felt very difficult for a moment.

The North does not have the tradition of recognizing several adoptive fathers at the same time. A adoptive father is also a father, and it is not a frivolous term. Once recognized, a bond is formed between the two parties, and they share interests and the family's honor and disgrace are bound together.

If a commoner has a few adoptive fathers, he just calls them dad a few more times and kowtows a few more times.

For a noble to recognize a foster father is no less than a marriage between two families, and they have to rebel together.

And with Master Bobak as a candidate, who dares to compete with a demigod?

But the Duke of the North was a big shot after all, with great courage, and he said straight away with a straight face: "Just tell me whether you recognize me as your foster father or not?"

After leaving Count Fruilov's Mansion, Leo had another identity as the "adopted son of the Grand Duke of the North".

"It's the alien version of a three-surnamed family slave!" Leo couldn't help scratching his head, "No, I'm still a son-in-law, so I have four surnames, and the BUFF is fully stacked!"

There is no need for Master Bobak to run around for the peace talks between the two tribes, as the team that made the preliminary contacts will naturally be responsible for it.

The Grand Duke of the North also acted quickly. The next day, Leo stood on the city wall and watched a team of human envoys leave the city with white flags and approach the orc legion camp to seek communication.

This is a very dangerous thing. The Beastmen have a rule of not killing envoys. If they don't intend to negotiate, the members of this delegation will most likely be made into jerky and used as military rations.

Of course, it is also possible to eat it on the spot to deter the enemy.

Leo had heard the Northern Grand Duke tell stories before, saying that the original civilization of the orcs was no worse than that of the humans in the North seven hundred years ago, and they had long since abandoned the custom of cannibalism.

At that time, the North was still in the Age of Kings, and had not yet bordered the Orlantis Empire. There were many small human countries and alien city-states in between.

The humans and beastmen in the north have lived together in the north for two hundred years, with the Anzeno River as the boundary, and the economic and cultural exchanges are very close.

Today's Counties of Forelov, Beowulf, and Beboos were all territories of the orcs back then.

But as the racial gap grew wider, a racial war eventually broke out.

At that time, the human race in the North was still competing for the ranking among the 100 sons of the God of War, and they were simply unable to resist the orc army which had natural individual advantages.

However, with the rise of Odalov, the Supreme King of the North, and especially after joining the Orlantis Empire, the overwhelming number of heavily armored cavalry from the South marched north on an expedition and defeated the orc army in one fell swoop.

With the Orlantis Empire's perfect military system and almost endless logistical supplies, the human army built a city every 50 miles and a village every 30 miles along the entire north bank of the Anzeno River, and built fortresses all the way to the banks of the North Glacier.

They also built the Wind God Fortress and Olenik, which are still magnificent cities today, and drove the orcs completely into the depths of the northern snowfields.

The orcs, who had been glorious for hundreds of years, survived on grass roots and mosses on the frozen soil of the tundra. They lingered on for seven hundred years and were unable to return to the North.

Even now, when the decline of the Orlantis Empire can be clearly felt by modern people, not many people think that the orcs are a big threat.

In fact, the entire orc tribe's migration south was something the human ruling class had never expected, and Count Fruilov even paid with his life for this misjudgment.

He thought that just like in previous years, if he took tens of thousands of people to guard the important military town of Varanger for a year or two, the orcs would collapse without a fight.

After the most important hunting base was destroyed by the human race’s extraordinary army, the main army of the orcs lost at least 40% of their food sources.

Coupled with the two failed sieges some time ago, the resentment of the orcs reached its peak.

While they were trying every possible way to raise food, they continued to prepare siege equipment, ready for another siege at any time.

At this time, the human race actually started peace talks.

More than 90% of the orc chiefs expressed their opposition and would rather die on the battlefield.

But the orc leaders are not all fools, otherwise they would not be able to gather such a large legion.

Under the joint suppression of the Orc Legion Commander, high-level governors, and prophet shamans, they immediately started negotiations with the human delegation and began to discuss the terms of a peace treaty.

The issue of the survival rights of the two major races cannot be resolved in a day or two.

The humans were unwilling to give up their land, and the beastmen were unwilling to retreat back to the snowfields.

So for the next week, the human delegation traveled back and forth, and in order to show their sincerity, the orcs also sent a delegation to enter Frovald for negotiations.

And deep in the northern snowfields, on the polar ice field, Master Bobak also waited for his replacement.

An elf girl who looked the same as Freya, but was slightly older and plumper, appeared beside Master Bobak.

Unlike the unremarkable Freya, this elf girl was dressed in gorgeous clothes, with an upright posture, appearing elegant and dignified.

Master Bobak stood up and saluted, "Your Majesty."

The one who came to replace Master Bobak was the Queen of the Elves, Ostara Anasta.

The dignified and elegant Elf Queen rolled her eyes and revealed her true colors in an instant, "Call me Junior Sister!"

She looked at the Gate of Disaster looming in the black fog in the distance and complained, "Why have you become like the teacher, always meddling in other people's business?"

"The races under the mountain have been protected by you for thousands of years. They have forgotten who their enemies are. This is wrong."

Master Bobak smiled and shook his head, "They are not ready yet."

The members of the elves have different ideas about how to treat the races down the mountain, and over thousands of years, they have developed three doctrines: traditionalism, balance, and wildness.

Traditional sects believe that the life and death of the people living down the mountain are determined by fate and there is no need to interfere. The invasion of the undead is also part of the process of reincarnation.

Tens of thousands of years of history have also proved this point: when the army of the undead squeezes the living space of living beings to the extreme, the remaining living beings will always put aside their conflicts and unite together.

If the elves help them at this time and take back their homes together, the races at the foot of the mountain will be very grateful, and the elves on the mountain will also feel relieved.

The Church of Balance believes that the races under the mountain need the guidance of the elves, the idea of ​​equality, and great unification, so that all things can be harmonious and jointly resist the threat of the undead.

The teachings of the Savage Sect and the Balance Sect do not conflict, but both advocate that the races living under the mountain should be self-reliant. The elves should not interfere too much, but should watch calmly and wait patiently.

Of course, in addition to the three sects that arose in response to the cognitive differences of the races down the mountain, the elves also have the Go sect, the checkers sect, the plant sect, the animal sect, the Eagle Catches Chicken sect, and other sects, all of which are doing their utmost to attract members, in a form equivalent to university clubs or American political parties.

Several hundred years ago, because checkers was all the rage in Trahil, the Checkers Faction won the election, and the great leader of the Checkers Faction, Ostara Anasta, was successfully promoted to Queen of the Elves.

Today, the Checkers Sect of Trahil has grown to a size of more than 200 people, which is more than the total number of the three major sects, and is the largest elven sect in the entire Trahil elven tribe.

If the other sects had not come together to make rules to restrict their actions, the Checkers Sect would have been ready to attack the animals of Trahil.

Elf Queen Ostara was very unhappy when she was called from the Elf Palace in Highgarden by Master Bobak. This was the first time she had walked out of Trahil in five hundred years.

Once the results come out, we have to work.

She and Bobak had studied together for a period of time under the elf Chisel when they were young, so they always addressed each other as senior and junior brothers and sisters.

But ever since Master Bobak was voted the "most boring elf" by his tribe, she rarely mentioned her senior brother.

Seeing that Senior Brother Bobak was as boring as ever, Ostara was a little angry. She pointed to the Gate of Calamity in the distance and said, "Sky Wave Strike!"