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In the Orc Empire, the Half-Orcs were an embarrassing group .

Unlike the fantasy novels that Sui Xiong had read before, in this world, the distinction between the Orcs and the Half-Orcs was based on their blood, not their faith .

The Orcs were the creations or descendants of the Orc gods . Because of the influence of their blood, they had been born as the believers of the Orc gods . Their souls were controlled by the Orc gods .

This situation was unique . Although the creator of other races also had a strong influence, they definitely couldn’t control the souls of their creations . For example, the Mother of Sea, the creator of humans, had little control and influence over the humans . That was why she had been killed by the God of Light .

Because their souls were influenced and controlled, the Orcs believed faithfully in the Orc gods . However, this situation was not absolute . Sometimes, some Orcs would wake up for various reasons and could get rid of the control of the Orc gods . In the Orc Empire, this was called Deterioration . There were also some mixed-race children who had the blood of the Orcs and of other races . Because of the insufficient blood concentration, they were naturally not controlled by the Orc gods .

Whether congenital or acquired, once their souls were freed from the control of the Orc gods, they were called Half-Orcs .

In the Orc Empire, the situation of the Half-Orcs was not good . Even if they still believed in the Orc gods, the Orc gods wouldn’t respond to them . For the Orc gods, believers who weren’t under their control were not qualified believers . They treated such believers in the same way how farmers treated weeds on the roadside . They might consider eating them during a famine, but they would never put them on their recipe .

For devout believers, it was a very painful thing to have their faith be ignored .

However, they had to suffer more pain . The Orcs didn’t have a friendly relationship with these types of believers . In the past years, more than one campaign for slaughtering the Half-Orcs in order to purify their faith had happened . Every time, it had caused thousands and even tens of thousands of Half-Orcs to be massacred .

Fortunately, this situation hadn’t happened in the last one hundred to two hundred years . That was probably because Junero, the ambitious and outstanding leader, was secretly controlling the public opinion . However, even Junero was not friendly to the Half-Orcs . Not only did they suffer heavy exploitation and oppression, but also in the wars, they were organized into a single group . They were asked to carry out the most difficult and dangerous tasks, but the reward was not much .

Half-Orcs were not idiots nor were they masochistic . Therefore, many Half-Orcs changed their past beliefs after being educated by their cruel reality . They also changed their lifestyle and left their homeland, going far away to a new place .

In the continent of the Main Plane, the Half-Orcs were the most common wandering race . These wanderers had the blood of the Orcs, but they couldn’t get their creators’ response like the Orcs . Among these confused wanderers were the best mercenaries and the most ferocious robbers .

After losing their faith, a small number of powerful Half-Orcs regarded honor as their life creed . According to their behavior, even the proudest knights had to admit that they were upright and noble . However, many powerful Half-Orcs completely indulged in material desires after the collapse of their faith . They became ferocious robbers and did evil things everywhere .

A large number of Half-Orcs had no ability . They couldn’t do good things nor evil things . They lived ignorantly, constantly wandering and working part-time . After saving some money, they continued to wander to find a place where they could have peace of mind . However, most of those Half-Orcs couldn’t find a place where they could feel at ease . They could only grow old during the constant wandering and finally die in poverty .

In general, most Half-Orcs were very unhappy . They were eager to find a place where they could live and work or learn something that could make themselves feel safe and live better .

In recent times, the climate of the Orc Empire was not very good . Although there were no large-scale natural disasters, the grain harvest has been declining .

It was said that this was because the new generation of the Sun God had a good relationship with the human gods . The Sun God deliberately embarrassed them . Moreover, after the fall of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest, this priesthood hadn’t been inherited .

In the past, the Orc gods had often given the Goddess of Bumper Harvest a lot of benefits in exchange for the fertility of the Orc Prairies . Relying on the richness that they had purchased, they could maintain a large number of the Orcs . Since the death of the Goddess of Bumper Harvest, they couldn’t buy any more crops . The Orc Prairies had lost its extra abundance and the population that it could support had naturally reduced .

In the battle of Sun’s Death Day, a lot of Orcs had died . A large number of the population was eliminated . Otherwise, the situation of the Orc Empire might be even worse, and the population pressure might be even greater .

When the population pressure was greater, food was naturally insufficient . When food was insufficient, the Half-Orcs would be the first to starve .

In recent years, many Half-Orcs had even starved to death .

So this time, when they heard that the new technical school in the Republic of Northwest didn’t have tuition fees, a large number of relatively strong Half-Orcs went to the Republic of Northwest . Regardless of danger, they followed the merchants, who preferred money over life, to go through the desert and through the canyons of the Mountains of Barrenness .

In the Republic of Northwest, they met their fellow villagers, the Half-Orcs who had lived here for a long time .

The Republic of Northwest didn’t discriminate against the Half-Orcs . Sui Xiong was usually very kind, but he was quite strict in front of some problems, one of them was racial discrimination .

This was not a policy established after the founding of the Republic . It had been a basic national policy since the establishment of the Church of Void Mask and the establishment of the Void Mask Land . In the Republic of Northwest, racial discrimination was a high tension cable . Anyone who stepped on it would be shocked by electricity . This was not a description or a metaphor . The penalties of the Republic of Northwest really had an electricity penalty . Sui Xiong was inspired by a guy who had a bad reputation on Earth . That guy’s name was Yang Yongxin, and he believed that electric shocks could cure internet addiction . The penalty was used to punish the people who had problems in thinking, and racial discrimination was one of the key problems .

Over time, everyone’s attitude naturally changed .

In the current Republic of Northwest, many Half-Orcs were living here . A few of them had moved here before, and most of them were born and raised here .

In theory, the Republic of Northwest and the Orc Empire were neighbors . However, they were actually separated by the world-famous dangerous area, the Gobi Desert . For common Half-Orcs, that was like a natural moat blocking their way . Therefore, in the past few years, few Half-Orcs had moved here from the Orc Empire . Now the Half-Orcs in the Republic of Northwest had either moved from the Commonwealth of Gold Coins in the South or were the relatives and friends of the Half-Orc masters .

Among them, even the relatively weak ones had left their home and wandered for a while in the past . Mentally, they were much stronger than the Half-Orcs who had just left the Orc Empire . Besides, they had lived in the Republic for a long time . They had been influenced by the enlightened, friendly and positive atmosphere here . Their mental attitude was completely different from that of the newcomers .

The bigger difference was between them and the new generation who was born and raised in the Republic from an early age .

During their childhood, those Half-Orcs had never been taught that “only the ones who believe in the creators can really gain happiness” and had never suffered any discrimination . On the contrary, because of their respective blood, they often had some advantages in different parts of their bodies . Some were tall and sturdy, and some had great physical strength; some were agile, and some were very fast . They behaved well among their peers, so they were full of confidence . There was a happy and positive atmosphere around them as if they were in a state of high morale .

When those Half-Orcs were standing alongside those Half-Orcs who had recently moved here, they looked like two completely different races . Although their appearances were similar, their temperaments were totally different .

Just in a few decades, I’ve got such a result, Sui Xiong thought . He was invisible in the air, looking at these different Half-Orcs . He couldn’t help but smile, feeling a sense of accomplishment and pride in his heart .