Burning Legion Benefits Are Amazing, Employee Perks Are No Slouch! Unlimited Demon Blood [Bonus Chapter 37/50]

(Bonus chapter for brother Huo Zhengtinghao [2/10])

Peons were a "special profession" among Orcs.

For a people who worshipped strength, Orcs who were small, weak, cowardly, or disabled were often ignored from birth. Some clans even "disposed of" such weaklings to preserve their own strength.

The Blackrock Clan, for example, had a similarly cruel tradition.

Yet some Orcs unfit to become warriors still survived into adulthood. They had quite a few paths to choose from: merchant, beast tamer, shaman apprentice, craftsman, and so on, all of which could serve as a means of survival. But if they were so stupid that they could not even learn the traditional Orcish craft of pig farming and become qualified swineherds, then being a peon was their only career option.

Otherwise, like lame Gul'dan, they could only be driven from their clan and left to fend for themselves in the wilderness.

Of course, even Orcs with the talent to become warriors had to spend a period of their adulthood as peons, training their patience, resilience, and willpower. In that respect, Orcish upbringing possessed a rather egalitarian beauty of "treating everyone equally."

But to true warriors, it was merely a ritual.

After one or two battles, they would invariably be selected by a warlord, given armor and weapons, and become the clan's honored defenders and fierce raiders. As for those without talent, they could only toil silently as peons, "giving off their light and heat" for the clan.

They served as attendants to warriors. In peacetime, they polished weapons, prepared food, fed Dire Wolves, cleaned beast dens, and handled a whole series of other tasks. During wartime, if the fighting grew desperate, peons had to arm themselves and take the field as cannon fodder.

But honestly, if a clan had fallen so low that it