Chapter 761: 761

Chapter 761: Revenge

To start, the “light healing potion” was never a recommended potion to use in the dark world . It was supposed to heal up a total of 60 life points . For knights, 60 might not be a lot, but it was plenty for saving the life of a sickly prince like Prince Horace .

Abel was steady when he took the dagger out of Prince Horace’s wound . If he were just a little shaky, the blade would’ve scraped against the heart and do unrecoverable damage . That being said, the potion still managed to take effect as soon as it was consumed .

Prince Horace opened his eyes, drowsily, “Where am I?”

King Ambrose was about to cry, “You’re awake, Horace!”

“Father!”

Tears started falling down Prince Horace’s cheek . It was the first time that he had experienced something this dangerous . The thought of almost being dead made his emotion become very unstable .

“It’s fine . It’s fine,” King Ambrose said . He was not an emperor at this moment . Now, he was just a father that was calming down his son .

Prince Horace finally thought of something, “Dunmore is dead, Father . He died bringing down four bearmen with him . ”

Talking about Dunmore was the least that Prince Horace could do . If he didn’t do so, no one would remember the great sacrifice Head Commander Dunmore made to protect him . The man didn’t fear the bearmen . At the brink of death, he managed to rely on nothing but his honor and dedication to the dignity of humanity .

King Ambrose patted Prince Horace on the head, “Don’t you worry about Dunmore, Horace . He will get the reward that he deserves, and so will his family . I’m not going to let a hero die without anyone to recognize him . ”

“And sorry,” King Ambrose turned to Abel, “Excuse us for leaving you like this, Grandmaster Abel, but we are all very grateful for the miraculous help you are giving us . ”

Abel bowed and said, “No, no, that’s okay, King Ambrose . I’ll be leaving if you no longer need my service . ”

King Ambrose turned to Prince Derek, “Derek, send Grandmaster Abel away for me . ”

If King Ambrose decided to give Abel gifts here, that would’ve ruined the relationship between them . What he asked Abel to do today was a favor, not some trade . This way, the gifts would definitely have to wait for another day .

Abel asked Prince Derek on the way back, “Your Highness . Do you mind if I asked you what happened?”

It was a genuine question to ask . The Orc Empire should be retiring after the war, but they launched an attack this serious . It was like they were planning to start the great war all over again .

Prince Derek sighed, “I’ll be honest with you, Grandmaster Abel . The Empire has suffered greatly because of this surprise attack . Horace wasn’t the only one that was hurt . A massacre was what happened in the duchy of Larvid . Even the griffin knights we sent were all eliminated during the ambush . ”

There was no point in hiding anything . The other two empires would know soon enough, and most of the major associations would too . Prince Derek was telling Abel all this to demonstrate how honest the Kingdom of St . Ellis could be to him .

Abel was just shocked to hear about all this . Prince Derek was telling him that all the griffin knights they sent were killed . It was right in the heart of the human world, no less . The truth was very close to his guesses . The orcs were using half the total of the pace eagles at their disposal for this operation . They must’ve dedicated a lot to try to make this surprise attack work .

Abel spoke with some anger, “Has the Orc Empire gone insane? How dare they intrude into our civilization like this . ”

Prince Derek shook his head, “The worst part is that they’ve captured the griffins . They’ve captured about ten of them in total . ”

“Are they trying to breed their own griffins, then?”

Prince Derek continued to shake his head, “That won’t be too likely, Grandmaster Abel . While they did capture both male and female, the way of raising them is difficult unless you’re a professional . Unless they have their own griffin knights, it will take at least several decades, if not centuries, for them to somehow create their own army consisting of them . ”

Abel knew how Griffins behaved . The Kingdom of St . Ellis sent four to him as gifts, so it was only natural that he knew how to raise them . They were special: apart from meat, they also required a special feed that was produced straight from the Kingdom of St . Ellis . Upon researching, he discovered that this special feed was made from a plant grown in a mana-rich environment . He figured that out about a month ago, and that’s when he figured out how to produce this kind of stuff on his own instead of having to buy it .

Anyways, it was mysterious that orcs wanted to capture them . The orcs had no access to mana, so they had no ways of finding crops that would be grown in a mana-rich environment . The griffins would die after being weakened for several months . To Abel, it was simply too much of a shame to let such elegant creatures be lost like this .

Abel said as he was on the teleportation circle, “I’ll see you off then, Your Highness . ”

“Farewell, Grandmaster Abel,” Prince Derek bowed as he said goodbye .

As expected, the whole thing made big news in the human world . Many major changes started happening . The most obvious one would be the relocation of the military . Large numbers of wizards and knights were deployed at Miracle City once again .

New missions were assigned at Miracle City . This time, rewards would be given for killing any orc . More would be given for killing orcs of higher ranks . For orcs about the level of a head wolfrider captain, the reward could go up as high as ten thousand gold coins .

Now, ten thousand gold coins were not all that valuable for powerful wizards . Money was not very valuable for them apart from buying rune cards, spell circles, and other sorts of magic items . However, for those who were starting to learn about spells, ten thousand gold coins were a very big fortune for them to handle . It was the same for knights . They saw this change as a great opportunity to start turning their lives around .

Again, since the Orc Empire had lost the war at Miracle City, they started sending a lot fewer orcs to harass the humans outside their own territories . The humans knew that, so for a change, instead of targeting just the orc battlefield, they started entering into the Orc Empire to hunt down any orcs that they could find . Yes, it was not something that was very often seen in history .

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