Mobilization

Abel had always been obsessed with griffins. If the Kingdom of Saint Ellis had not been the suzerain state of the Duchy of Camai, forcing him to consider the implications, he would have wanted to steal griffins directly from the Kingdom of Saint Ellis.

Now, the news of ten griffins had appeared before him with such undeniable authenticity, and his heart was stirred.

These ten griffins, seized by the orcs, had already escaped the control of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis. According to human law, no one had the right to seize spoils obtained from the orcs.

As long as he snatched these ten griffins back from the orcs, even if the Kingdom of Saint Ellis found out, it could only tacitly acknowledge his right to possess them.

As for the danger posed by the Orc Empire, he did not care. The Orc Empire was already crippled.

On top of that, the previous attack on the Saint Ellis Duchy had enraged Emperor Ambrose. The result was that the Kingdom of Saint Ellis had offered a vast quantity of gold coins to buy orc lives.

This had made the already devastated Orc Empire even worse off.

One had to understand that this kind of scattered adventurer assault, in which they invaded the Orc Empire, would likely prompt the human High Wizards to join the battle if the Orc Empire mobilized its High Priests. That could directly ignite an unprecedented final war between the races.

Although the battle at the Miracle Wall had been enormous in scale, practically the largest battle between humanity and the Orc Empire, it had merely been a war of attrition. The forces depleted had all been mid- and low-level combatants. The top-level battle between High Wizards and High Priests had never taken place.

Once the human High