The name Swain made Hottel freeze. When he had been very young, the figure his elders hated most was that man!
Many famous commanders had emerged throughout the history of the Steel Empire. Some were even respected to a certain extent among the orc tribes, such as Marshal Lion Lokes, Marshal Black Fang Alice, Marshal Dawn Sword Robert, and others...
Orcs worshiped the strong. Even if they belonged to different factions, powerful figures from elsewhere were still highly respected among the orcs. There was only one exception: the so-called Empire Ghost Fox, Marshal Swain!
This marshal could almost be called the human who had inflicted the greatest losses on the orcs in history. During his command, the total population of the northern orcs had nearly fallen by a third. That period had been a disaster in orc history, and even today, they had not fully recovered.
Yet he had relied not on brave and powerful combat prowess, but on terrifying schemes and trickery!
This man would stop at nothing to win a battle. He used every despicable method available, and the so-called human chivalry was less than dirt in his eyes!
On the grasslands, orcs never killed children below the height of a Frost Wolf's back. This rule applied even when facing humans. Even if they invaded a human city and plundered its resources and women, they would not casually harm the children. But he was different. Total extermination was the standard practice of the Ghost Fox's army. Wiping out livestock, burning the grasslands, spreading alchemical viruses into water sources, and other vicious methods never made him hesitate. Even Alice, whose methods had once drawn widespread criticism, had never been as utterly devoid of principles as he was!
In those years, whenever the elders who had returned from training in