Chapter 1657 The 26th Year of the Dark Portal (Second Update)

The life of a traditional orc is to hunt all year round except in winter, or fight and kill people. Only in winter, when there is no place to go, they use the accumulated food to survive the winter. If you have nothing to do, just have sex, or hold a gladiatorial competition in the clan's big tent.

Thrall had no choice but to throw the Nagrand orcs who were the most trouble-makers and had the least food reserves to the North. This was also a helpless move.

If these guys are not sent here, they will follow the traditional rules - steal and rob. If there are foreigners, they will rob other people. If there are no foreigners, they will attack their own people. Anyway, in the eyes of these uncivilized orcs, only those of their own clan are their own, and most of them do not have the concept of "big orcs".

I have to say that by throwing the burden to the Alliance and showing the sincerity of the tribe, if we can take advantage of the war to deal with some of the thorns that have gone too far, this can be regarded as killing three birds with one stone.

Of course, the Alliance would not be so stupid as to raise 200,000 orcs for them to eat and drink for free.

Duke adopted a divide-and-conquer approach. Those small clans with little status in the tribe were directly given weapons enchanted by the Holy Light. Every hundred people were assigned an Alliance Paladin, and they were taken to various places to take over the clearing work of Alliance soldiers.

The Scourge has been operating in Northrend for 20 years. It can be said that they have dug holes everywhere. All corpses without guardians have been turned into undead.

Especially Zul'Drak and Azjol Nerub: The Zul'Drak area is full of altars. The complex and narrow low-level maze cannot transport heavy equipment at all. It is possible that dozens of corpses are squeezed into an inconspicuous crack, and they can come out to cause trouble if they are not careful.

The Spider Kingdom is even more troublesome. In the past, when the giant spiders fought against the Scourge, they would dig holes and run away if they were not enough. As a result, there was a messy maze of small passages down below, and infantry could only be used.

These can only be filled with human lives, or elites must be used.

After fighting for so many months, Union soldiers were generally tired. The dwarves were originally good at tunnel fighting, but Duke was reluctant to let them be used as bulk soldiers.

This kind of close combat is a good place to display the combat power of the orcs.

Of course, there are also some arrogant big clans among the orcs, such as the Mocking Skulls. They refuse to enter small pits and play games with bones, and are only willing to participate in head-on battles.

For such a guy, Duke waved his hand and, with great respect for history, built the [Silver Arena] on the high ground between Storm Cliff and Icecrown Glacier. This huge arena group is divided into the Candidates Arena, the Silver Warriors Arena and the Champions Arena.

There are so many gladiatorial arenas for those orcs who claim to be brave to vent their excess energy.

Duke very considerately divided the use time of the gladiatorial arena into a time period exclusively for orcs, a period exclusively for the alliance, and a period for mutual communication, so that these guys with excess energy can not only fight each other, but also work together to win glory for the clan.

Since it is a gladiatorial arena, there must be an audience, right?

Without an audience, there would be no atmosphere!

Do you need to pay a ticket to enter?

Want some drinks and popcorn?

It doesn't matter if the orcs have no money. The alliance will uniformly pay the orc soldiers according to the standards of alliance soldiers. Of course, there are no other benefits.

Orcs can take Arathor coins to the canteen to buy extra food, or even save up to buy better equipment for themselves.

It doesn’t matter if the tribal warriors don’t know any other way to make money besides fighting, you can place bets.

Well, the league’s largest official bookmaker is the Marcus family.

It doesn't matter if you lose all your money, the orcs can still work part-time, such as training with Alliance soldiers, just like training for the Alliance's new recruits.

There are also some dangerous jobs, such as cooperating with Mimiron to test the combat power of the mechanical dwarfs.

Anyway, these orcs have unknowingly become accustomed to the alliance's economic system...

Duke's approach was so high-sounding, so fair and open, that Varok Saurfang, the commander-in-chief of these 200,000 orcs, could not find any fault at all.

Although he remembered Thrall and Vol'jin's instructions to always keep an eye on Duke, he still sighed.

Time stepped into the door of darkness on New Year's Day, January 1, 2026.

For the orcs, they have no concept of New Year, but the Alliance does not. A large group of soldiers who crossed the ocean and had to spend the New Year on another continent began to celebrate the New Year.

In order to alleviate the homesickness of the soldiers, Duke also showed his kindness and fully opened the magic network on this day. Magical communication devices were set up in hundreds of military camps in Northrend, allowing soldiers who made outstanding contributions in the Northern Expedition to make five-minute long-distance video calls with their families.

This move directly made Duke's reputation, which seemed to be as high as ever, even higher.

No matter which camp you go to, you can hear soldiers shouting "Long live Duke Marcus!" ’.

A series of civilization and cultural inputs from the Alliance are subtly influencing these orcs from the wild world...

After New Year's Day, the arena opened again.

After long preparations, the main event finally took place in Cairo, which was commonly known as the ‘Trial of the Crusade’.

The most powerful hunters of the Alliance and the Horde have been braving the cold since the arena was built, capturing some powerful beasts from all over Northrend and throwing them into the arena to challenge the warriors of the Alliance and the Horde.

Injury is inevitable during the challenge, but death is rare. A group of priests from the alliance are on standby near the arena area. As long as they don't die on the spot, they can save their lives with just one breath.

Only the most powerful beasts have remained until now.

Without Duke's permission, the guys below would not dare to let a monster of this level mess around even if they gave him 10,000 courages.

On this day, the leaders sitting in the special seats next to the championship arena were Duke, Jaina, Saurfang and his son, as well as Garrosh Hellscream who looked like everyone owed him tens of thousands of dollars.

"Hey, Duke, he has a grudge against you?" Jaina teased Duke in the magic message.

"Have a grudge? Is he worthy?" Duke chuckled: "But he will be a very useful chess piece. Simple, irritable, and rough, any chess player will like such a chess piece, even if the chess piece is The opponent's."

Jaina's eyes flickered and she smiled without saying a word.

Over there, Garrosh became even more unhappy: "Duke Marcus..."

Originally, Garrosh was going to call Duke this way, but Varok Saurfang snorted: "I need to add the word 'Your Excellency' to show respect!"

Garrosh's lungs were about to burst with anger. What was hateful was that he was now only the chieftain of the Warsong clan, while Varok represented Thrall here.

He gritted his teeth in dissatisfaction, making a clicking sound before squeezing out the word "Your Excellency" between his teeth.

"Oh, what's the matter?" Duke looked like he had just heard him speak.

"Is there anything the Alliance cannot say in front of the Horde warriors?"